@Paulatics you should nag the Senate IT to start up an official instance for official accounts of Senators.

@johnefrancis The Senate IT department is scathingly negative about Mastodon. They do not think I should be using it myself.

@Paulatics they probably just hate change and uncertainty. It's sad that they blindly recommend all manner of terrible foreign platforms for everything.

@johnefrancis @Paulatics Large IT departments tend to be inherently conservative. It’s the same attitude that led to “nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft products.” :/