The decentralized nature of the fediverse means nobody can “control” it really. You can have control over your own instances and that’s pretty much where it stops. I doubt the Canadian government would want to run more than a Mastodon instance like we’ve seen in the EU for open communication.
I would rather they invest in this with a tiny tiny sum to keep open communications available with the populace as compared to being beholden not only to corporations, but corporations that are generally outside of our jurisdiction.
I worry less about technology and more about legislation. The Canadian govt has shown quite a willingness to regulate the Internet in all kinds of clueless and dangerous ways.
I would not be worried at all about our government wanting to control the Fediverse because they handed over some cash to finance development—at most they’d stop putting in more cash after the next election cycle. It’s just not how our government behaves (we have more issues with them being unwilling to take over things when the citizens actually want them to).
Im not canadian but I think this is a bad idea. If they spend money on it they will want to control it.
The decentralized nature of the fediverse means nobody can “control” it really. You can have control over your own instances and that’s pretty much where it stops. I doubt the Canadian government would want to run more than a Mastodon instance like we’ve seen in the EU for open communication.
I would rather they invest in this with a tiny tiny sum to keep open communications available with the populace as compared to being beholden not only to corporations, but corporations that are generally outside of our jurisdiction.
I worry less about technology and more about legislation. The Canadian govt has shown quite a willingness to regulate the Internet in all kinds of clueless and dangerous ways.
Thats my worry too.
I would not be worried at all about our government wanting to control the Fediverse because they handed over some cash to finance development—at most they’d stop putting in more cash after the next election cycle. It’s just not how our government behaves (we have more issues with them being unwilling to take over things when the citizens actually want them to).