Ottawa city council committee vote to stay on X for now [Ottawa Citizen]
Ottawa city council committee vote to stay on X for now [Ottawa Citizen]
A motion to cut ties with the social media site failed at committee, keeping the city accounts active despite concerns over misinformation.
The Ottawa Citizen is American owned media pretending to be Canadian, infiltrating Canadian culture and politics.
The owner tweeted that Canada isn't a real country.
Why the fuck does no one have any backbone anymore?
Why is this so hard to do? 🤦🏾♀️
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Councilors have established followings on Twitter. They don't want to recreate them elsewhere.
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Journalists loooooooove Twitter. Councilors want to be where the journalists are.
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It's a culture war battle.
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At least get on mstdn.ca
How is the time IMO to make the wholesale switch for all government entities. Canada is more unified against the existential threat of the US than ever. Let's fucking go already.
Is it too hard to expand your reach by also opening a bluesky and Mastodon account and crosspost?
So you’re telling me there’s
a chancestill time to spin up an @ottawa.ca mastodon instance.@veeesix @Cracks_InTheWalls I think my admin is willing to help the city soon up an instance.
That'd be awesome, but I'm not holding my breath on it being something Suxcliffe pays any mind to.
I'm just dreaming now, but what I'd love to see is the City enter a partnership with a non-profit like National Capital Freenet to set up and maintain the technical infrastructure for federated communication tools. But a) don't know if that's something NCF is interested in or even has the capacity to support, and b) it's never gonna happen anyway.
We do have mstdn.ca already at least.
I'd love to see Mastodon take off, but until it increases its utility for journalists (and influencers) it's going to be hard to replace other microblogging apps.
"We're fine hanging out in the Nazi bar, actually"
It's pretty disappointing. There's lots of other channels to communicate city matters, X is unnecessary even if it wasn't a cesspool.
