📣 Post by evan

2024-12-13

If your city government ran a Mastodon instance, would you use it?

#EvanPoll #poll

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📊 Results (788 voters)

215 ██████▌  Strong yes
264 ████████ Qualified yes
162 ████▉    Qualified no
147 ████▍    Strong no

💬 Replies

2024-12-14 grahamperrin ┃ 1💬

@evan that's a surprise (disappointment) …

2024-12-14 chris__martin

@evan My city government can't even accept online payment of the water bill so I'm having a hard time entertaining this hypothetical

2024-12-14 evan ┃ edited ┃ 1💬

Thanks to everyone for answering. I like the idea of urban scale Fediverse account servers. That said, I prefer a smaller affinity group. Qualified yes.

2024-12-13 gooba42

@evan I'm in SW Missouri. There's a lot of reasons I don't necessarily want to connect with more locals.

2024-12-13 noctilua

@evan

I barely trust my government running governmental services, lending them my social web life sounds like impending doom.

I donʼt really like Mastodon as a platform either. Misskey and […]

2024-12-13 wendinoakland

@evan Depends what part of my city gov’t is running it.

2024-12-13 navtis

@evan My city government would outsource it to Capita who would manage around 50% uptime, forget to do any security updates, then let scammers take it over. So no. In another world definitely, […]

2024-12-13 shtrom

@evan I wouldn't have an account on it as it's too locally bound for me to attach long-term thing like friends to it.

OTOH, it may make sense to have a dedicated account for local info if […]

2024-12-13 alexmorse

@evan I'd use it, but wouldn't expect my city to be able to keep it running...

2024-12-13 MichaelPorter ┃ 3👤

@evan @johnefrancis Qualified no, I doubt it would be an improvement over ottawa.place, and I *know* I wouldn't trust the mods as much as I do @leigh and @andrew 👍🏻

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