If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?
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Invisible Marcel 🌀replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@evan For work related stuff, sure... for shitposting? Nah, I'll use my current account for that.
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@evan I'm not in a public-facing role, and wouldn't really want to be. If there was a stronger business/vendor presence in the fediverse, I might use it a little for strictly professional things.
If you mean for internal-only stuff, probably somewhat. That would overlap (and improve upon) some of the things we use Teams for right now.
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@evan Only if it stayed internal-only. If it was actually federated then absolutely not. (Though given my employer that's not a worry, there's no way they'd allow that)
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Please, specify:* server for staff.* Does it means not federated?
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Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands ☣replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
@[email protected] Qualified yes: I wouldn't use it for personal shit. I don't need an employer policing my language or what I can talk about. But I would consider using it for work related stuff if there was stuff related to my job that people might want to know about.
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@evan no, I would never use an employer owned social media account.
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@evan I do far too much shitposting to want my employer associated with it, or for them to find my posts.
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Strong no.
Everything on the server is public to the server owner.
All it would take is one petty or vindictive manager to fire someone for something out of context.
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@evan wouldn't that be useful for people not yet on fedi, so they don't have to choose an instance because there's already one with people they know? So basically the target audience is people who aren't voting in this poll?
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@evan I'm on a trusted instance for work and personal (two accounts) and I prefer that. I like my job a good deal but running an instance (as opposed to just being on Mastodon) would be a thing sort of outside of our core mission and I'd be more worried it might not last as opposed to being on a trusted instance. We're a very teeny workplace.
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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).
