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.

Show threadQuing Em van KhaosNov 22, 2022
@jerry no, ACAB
Show threadDaniel MicayNov 23, 2022
@QuingKhaos @jerry CISA isn't a law enforcement agency.
Show threadQuing Em van KhaosNov 23, 2022
@DanielMicay @jerry it's part of DHS
Show threadDaniel Micay

@QuingKhaos @jerry

That doesn't make it a law enforcement agency. FEMA is part of DHS too. Would you feel the same way if FEMA made an account on a major instance to post announcements about natural disasters?

CISA is not a law enforcement agency and doesn't do offensive work. They work on securing US infrastructure overall and also help with securing the infrastructure of companies, etc. in the US to a lesser extent.

Having an account on the instance doesn't give them any special access, so what's the issue? If they wanted to do something nefarious it wouldn't be from an official account for publishing information...

Nov 23, 2022 at 5:32amWeb