Jerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 22, 2022
I've been in contact with Jen Easterly, the head of US CISA, this morning and they'll be creating accounts here. There is an account, @cisacyber, that is legitimately owned by CISA, though they're early in the setup process, so please, don't report them for impersonation.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 22, 2022

Since posting the message this is in reply to, I’ve had approximately 11,000,000 replies asking me why CISA or the US government doesn’t set up their own mastodon/fediverse instance. Or telling me that they should. I can’t reply to them all, so addressing it here.

Perhaps they will create one. Maybe they won’t. I’m not them. They didn’t create their own version of twitter.

I have to believe setting up a new service in the US government is a long and complicated and expensive process. Perhaps they want to jump in and see if the fediverse is useful enough to warrant the investment.

It’s been maybe 14 hours. Let’s give them a bit of grace, please.

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@jerry Just to chime in, I for one support letting #CISA on here, because:

  • As far as I can tell CISA is one of the "good" ones. They have a positive impact on society and focus on protection.
  • Any of the "bad" ones -- overly aggressive gov. actors -- can make all sorts of accounts here and elsewhere without telling us. So what's gained by blocking CISA?
  • I'm for #inclusion and against #blocking unless there's documented bad behavior.
  • Getting important players involved in our conversation is good for infosec.exchange, the Fediverse, and our #community as a whole.

Thanks for taking a stand!

Nov 22, 2022 at 4:03pmWeb