📣 Post by evan

If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?

#EvanPoll #poll

📊 Results (748 voters)

168 █████▍   Strong yes
245 ████████ Qualified yes
133 ████▎    Qualified no
202 ██████▌  Strong no

We have one at social.openearth.org/ and I do use it so Strong Yes. I guess also socialwebfoundation.org/ too!

@evan Probably a strong no as I have an own instance. Wouldn't that be the case then a qualified yes.

@evan general rule, only use employer owned things that are mandatory.

@evan Would it be internal or public?

@evan my clients have a lot of internal comms tools, mainly Slack & Teams right now. But it's ever changing.

Vanilla Slack could be easily replaced by an ActivityPub system, but I don't think […]

@evan We already had Yammer so why not?

@evan if my role involved communicating in an official or work-related capacity, yes.

@evan Lots of people saying they voted "strong yes" then immediately qualifying it...

I'm a strong no, I don't see any reason to use Mastodon at work. As it is, our Teams Channels are 99% […]

@evan I would only use it for work-related topics.

> If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?

Strong yes, but only for work-related things, and only if it's part of my job to post for my employer.

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