BOOST CHALLENGE! Ok #Fediverse and #Mastodon. If I tell my Canadian Member of Parliament, Gord Johns, that he will get 2000 followers within one week of creating a Mastodon account, will you make that happen?I want him to be able to say when he st...

[sarraceniawilds@cr8r.gg]

@chris @Paulatics @TheDefiant604 @MSPLB @SenKarenAb @colindeacon
oh its really too bad its all on mstdn.ca . I sincerely hope someone up there can spool up a gov.ca instance for you all. There are reasons I left that instance, I would not want my friends to be on it.

[paulatics@mstdn.ca]

@SarraceniaWilds @chris @TheDefiant604 @MSPLB @SenKarenAb @colindeacon I have tried to convince the Senate to have its own instance, to no avail. They are worried, I think, about liability - they just don't have the staff power to safeguard such a site.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@Paulatics @SarraceniaWilds @TheDefiant604 @MSPLB @SenKarenAb @colindeacon I can understand the liability concern initially... but if you consider that they provide email to all government, which has an infinitely higher risk factor in terms of social engineering, viruses, malware and ransomware, I am left unable to fathom what "liability" concern there really is.

[julian]

@[email protected] @[email protected] yeah I'd also love to learn more about the supposed liability.

There's no reason the instance need be open to the public, having it restricted to senators, MPs, etc. would even act as an automatic "verified" of sorts based on the domain.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@julian which is precisely the point. We know an email from gc.ca is legit. So should a social media handle. I think there is a fewr of the moderation requirements, but if you look at it from the lens of an enterpise class email server, the workload is very similar.

[mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca]

@julian @chris
As I recall, Spark did do a piece about Mastodon in 2022.

I can't find it now though...

#cbc

[intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk]

@julian @chris @evan

Thanks Julian. Spark is one of my go to radio shows. Nora Young does it right.

I have taken your idea and also contacted Spark with the petition and value of having this discussion.

As always thanks Chris, Chad et al.

[ophiolite@cansoccer.social]

@chris Gord Johns is my MP, I used to follow him on the bird site. He posts quality content that I would like to follow again.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@ophiolite Gord is a great guy. I have tried to convince, hope he'll come around!

[quadradical@wetdry.world]

@onepict @chris @EC_ECHO @ELA it's a shame the EU accounts are probably shutting down

[onepict@chaos.social]

@QuadRadical @chris @EC_ECHO @ELA

Perhaps they may not. We can but hope. @EU_Commission
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112343309342990697

[epistatacadam@toot.wales]

@chris can anyone from the world join in? I'd like all governments to break links with surveillance capitalism, especially the tech bro kind. (Yes I include avoiding Windows based software!)

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@epistatacadam YES!

[jaimej@social.seattle.wa.us]

@chris

Done. Chris, I'm following you so that, hopefully, you'll let us know if/when he joins, and then we can follow him, too.

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@jaimeJ Parliament is back in session this week so I'm going to bug him about it again!