If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?
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@evan my clients have a lot of internal comms tools, mainly Slack & Teams right now. But it's ever changing.
Vanilla Slack could be easily replaced by an ActivityPub system, but I don't think Mastodon is up to the task right now.
I can't imagine relocating to their public Mastodon instance, if they had one. Their sr. management & board is evil and entirely untrustworthy and that's not changing any time soon.
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👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering）replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan I would not, primarily because I enjoy my own instance and being in control of my own infrastructure and online presence.
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@evan Would it be internal or public?
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@evan heh, don't @ me, got it
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We have one at https://social.openearth.org/ and I do use it so Strong Yes. I guess also https://socialwebfoundation.org/ too!
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Invisible Marcel 🌀 last edited by
@madjo is that typical for other digital services your employer provides?
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@drsbaitso I did not, but there's no reason you couldn't use a public server just to connect with colleagues (and set your account to private).
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@wordshaper why?
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@tassoman I meant "for employees" but I didn't want to get into the distinction between employees, contractors, consultants, or whatever. "Staff" seems to cover them all.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands ☣ last edited by
@deathkitten do you use work email for personal stuff?
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@ecksearoh why not?
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@LinuxAndYarn yeah, that seems dumb. Do they give you an email address?
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@undead do you use the company email server?
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@luc yes, I think it would be great.
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Julien Deswaef :tw:replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan we have one at https://toot.thoughtworks.com.
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@jessamyn what about a SaaS service like https://masto.host/ ?
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Evan Prodromoureplied to 👺防空識別區👹 （mix mastering） last edited by
@adiz do you have separate work and personal email addresses?
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@evan Yes, and I only use it for my job,. nothing else. The days of using work addresses for anything personal ended for me when gmail was launched.
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@jasonbrooks I just don't like doing this kind of goalpost-moving in the middle of a poll. "It's public EXCEPT FOR TUESDAYS on approval from a manager but only for automated content unless a repost by official brand accounts" blah blah blah.
If there is a difference for you between public or private, answer "Qualified Yes" or "Qualified No".
