During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partner for a 25-year cloud computing contract for the federal government. The contract’s length should have set off red flags of its own, but the…
The government is not really the “public”, unless it meant that the public would be able to see and follow announcements, communication, etc, all in one place.
I agree with what you’re saying, but I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Mastodon can be accessed by anyone with a browser. If the whole government made their Mastodon instance their official release channel then it would achieve your objective.
Canadian government should host its own Mastodon server for public service announcements and discourse.
That would absolutely be abused.
Can you elaborate?
Presumably they could run it so only government agencies/staff can post or comment, so it stays official but they can interact with the public
The government is not really the “public”, unless it meant that the public would be able to see and follow announcements, communication, etc, all in one place.
I agree with what you’re saying, but I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Mastodon can be accessed by anyone with a browser. If the whole government made their Mastodon instance their official release channel then it would achieve your objective.
How. Don’t government agencies have twitter accounts? Why don’t they just move it to an instance thats run by themselves?
They run email servers.