Halifax council has voted to phase out X (formerly known as Twitter) accounts officially used by the municipality, citing concerns over perceived toxicity on the site and the owner’s close relationship with the United States president.
    • PeriodicallyPedantic
      21·
      10 months ago

      Still marginally better than x, but I’ve always kinda thought it’d make sense for government entities who already have web hosting to host their own mastodon instance, for public offices to make announcements on, that they control.

      • HonoredMuleOPEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        Strongly agree. It’s a service that federal or provincial governments could maintain for all (lower) levels of government, crown corps, etc. where account creation is restricted to those entities and prominent public figures within them. And just like that you have a secure, reliable, and accessible general purpose communications platform where every post is from a verified identity with clearly specified qualifications.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          9 months ago

          Similar dream I have for Ottawa - you give Chebucto Community Net a nice chunk of change to set up and maintain the infrastructure.

          Been many, many years, but if the kind of person who worked/volunteered for CCN hasn’t changed doubtless someone would be interested and have the skills.