vga256Feb 24

i have a weird idea that i'd like some input on from fellow canadians specifically about mastodon/the fediverse. boosts very much appreciated!

i grew up in the 80s and 90s canada. there were rules about the % and types of "canadian content" broadcasted on tv/radio.

partly because of that, and federal-provincial funding credits, i got to grew up with canadian-produced tv series like the Beachcombers, The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, The Raccoons, North of 60, The Elephant Show, Degrassi Jr/Sr High. it's a big list, and i'm sure you remember a lot more. some of it was great. some of it sucked. but all of it was very weird and canadian.

there was nothing i was fiercely prouder of than being canadian, because it was all around me.

and the in the 2000s some of that changed. cancon weakened. american productions got a huge foothold here, and suddenly we became inundated with american pop tv and music. i watched teens/adults become infatuated with US pop lifestyle, mostly because - i think! - we just didn't produce anything worth watching or listening to. even cbc.ca is 50% american headlines now, and it's painful

here's where mastodon comes in. i'm seeing that process happen again on masto. canadians posting endlessly about american politics and pop culture. i just checked the live feed of the largest masto instance in canada, and it was 100% american news opinions.

what i don't see - and please correct me if i'm wrong - is a cancon-oriented masto instance or fedi presence. one that *specifically* is organized around boosting/organizing/frontpaging canadian stories with canadian people in them.

i want to talk about our utterly unwatchable modern canadian tv series. or just how lame cbc radio 1's pop culture interviews are. or how heartbroken i was to see the team canada women's team lose a nailbiter.

i love that the fediverse was built around internationalism, but i've watched two generations of kids grow up with weak ties to their local weirdo canuck culture. they deserve a place where canadian stuff is front-and-centre, even if it sucks and we know it. i want to know the local news in coal harbour and fort st john and churchill.

what would that look like on the fediverse? would it be a masto instance? or something else?

feel free to reply here, or just write something up and tag with #canadaverse

#canada #fedizen #canadaverse #yeg #alberta #bc #saskatchewan #manitoba #yukon #nunavut #quebec #novascotia #ontario #newbrunswick #newfoundland #nwt

Show thread90s Script KiddieFeb 24
@vga256 An instance is a good idea, I think if you want more of these conversations a set of hashtags and a kind of coordinator account would be good. Give people things to follow and places to put their own takes on things. For what it's worth CBC has had some pretty good shows in recent years, Baroness von Sketch, Sort Of, and Workin' Moms come to mind.
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@90sScriptKiddiw an account dedicated to frontpaging canadian content is a great idea. it's actually funny to me that no one has done that before. just boosting the hell out of canadian accounts/stories.

i think i've missed most of the good new cbc shows in the past 10 years. whatever i watched tended to ape american comedy/drama, and i never saw anything i found particularly unique. when i say weird canadian tv, i'm imagining stuff like On The Road Again with wayne rostad. there's something totally bizarre about driving through every hick town in canada and interviewing locals and yet being totally wholesome about it. i won't say it was great tv, but it *felt* canadian to me.

Feb 24 at 3:08pmWeb