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Let’s encourage the Canadian Government to join the Fediverse (mstdn.chrisalemany.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A parliamentary petition has been started to try to encourage the Canadian Government to join the Fediverse. If you want to support this petition, follow the link to Chris Alameny’s post where you’ll find links to both French and English versions of the petition. You have to be a Canadian citizen to sign the petition. We only need a few more signatures to get over the 500 needed. We’d love to see every Province and Territory represented.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

By join the fediverse, do you mean instances moderated by the federal government? What would be the desired outcome?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it means for gov't agencies (hopefully at all levels) to make important announcements available here as opposed to twitter or other closed platforms

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't it be in addition to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Realistically it would be, they're not about to cut 99%+ of users off from their announcements.

Hell, for really important stuff they still go with snail mail.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'd be happy to have an "official" Mastodon instance. If individual politicians want to engage with their constituents, they can use any old Mastodon (or Lemmy, or whatever) instance. But having government agencies use a Mastodon instance for official communications would provide some insulation from the whims of capricious corporations.