<![CDATA[Bouncing on this idea and had the thought, what if municipal Mastodon instances were run by your local libraries?]]>RE: https://kamloops.social/@fname/116214063829840335

Bouncing on this idea and had the thought, what if municipal Mastodon instances were run by your local libraries? Hardware and hosting by the provincial consortium and then local admin duties shared by staff?

To pitch it you'd probably need a fully priced out setup guide and a bit of training ready to go out the gate.

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I don't think we should make politicians or librarians responsible for making sure moderation happens.

Would "Mastodon moderator" become a new job title?

How would we separate the moderation responsibility from the politician funding it? I suspect they'd be concerned about blowback and accusations of censorship being tied to them and affecting their campaigns.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/robotistry/statuses/116217013682908863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/robotistry/statuses/116217013682908863Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:54:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bouncing on this idea and had the thought, what if municipal Mastodon instances were run by your local libraries? on Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:12:10 GMT]]>@action_jay I've thought before about how Seattle's IT (though under the hood it's Oracle Cloud) could probably handle basic public hosting for any resident.

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