Mastodawn

This message is intended for Canadian #Mastodon admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.

#mastoadmin
#MastodonCanada
#MastoCanadaGOV (hashtag for this project)

CC: @ZebKing

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Innocuous In Innisfil Has Moved Jan 14

Good Morning #Canada
If you are tuning in for Canadian trivia and bad puns.... prepare to be disappointed. I'm once again hijacking my morning post to ask all Canadian Mastodonians for input.

Question for all MastoCanucks - how would you convince a politician or government dept/agency to join Mastodon? What are the key points that should be made to motivate our government accounts to make a move?

There will be lots of repetitive answers but feel free to expand on those. Also chime in on what questions or resources government accounts might need to successfully launch a Mastodon account (overcoming resistance). If you volunteer to help contact government individuals, what resources do you need to help support your efforts (enabling scale and shared purpose)?

Respond to this post and please boost for reach into all corners of Canada. Follow #MastoCanadaGOV for future updates. Remember, there are no bad ideas, just bad puns by yours truly.

cc: @ZebKing

#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp #MastodonCanada

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Charles A-M Jan 14

@paulbusch @ZebKing Having worked in a city councillor's office (albeit a decade ago), they are overworked and their attention is already stretched across a bunch of platforms.

Getting them to leave X should be easy; point out that feeds are no longer public to people without a login. But most gravitate to Bluesky

There's no quick fix to get them to pick Mastadon. We need to build an audience for them here to make it worth their time to participate.

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Charles A-M

@paulbusch @ZebKing here's the reply I got from my councillor when I asked in 2023. Gives some insight into their thought process, and elaborates on what I said above.

Another councillor here, the Hardest Working Person on Council(TM), is the only one of the 25 members of Ottawa's City Council with a Mastodon account, and even he has set a boundary that he only uses it for personal stuff like posting Wordle scores.