This is a letter I sent to the Supreme Court of Canada upon hearing this morning that they had announced their departure from the Twitter/X platform. CC: Speaker Greg Fergus, House Clerk Janse, Senate Clerk Greffiere, Senator Paula Simons, MP Gord Johns Dear Right Honourable Chief Justice Wagner, Honourable Justices, Supreme Court Officials and Staff, … Continue reading "The Supreme Court of Canada Leaves Twitter — It’s time all Canadian entities use Canadian Social Media"
A good first step.
In the interest of continuity, and to also try driving traffic away from twitter, I would recommend multi-posting…
But have the twitter one cut off and end with a link to the replacement site. Using their final tweet as an example:
“Dear subscribers – moving forward…” [Full text available on
Mastodon]
I’ve got a copypasta for recommending Mastodon to Canadians looking to get more reliable news. I include some suggested starting follows for Canadian news sources and information. I’d love to add some official government Mastodon accounts to that list.
In fact, any other suggestions, I can try and improve it. I want to keep it pretty streamlined, Federated services are already kind of complicated and impose a bit of a learning curve. I focused on just Canadian hosted general interest Mastodon instances, with a good list of Canadian news sources. I leave the discover of Lemmy.ca and Pixelfed.ca for later exploration.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !canada@lemmy.ca
A good first step.
In the interest of continuity, and to also try driving traffic away from twitter, I would recommend multi-posting…
But have the twitter one cut off and end with a link to the replacement site. Using their final tweet as an example:
“Dear subscribers – moving forward…” [Full text available on Mastodon]
I’ve got a copypasta for recommending Mastodon to Canadians looking to get more reliable news. I include some suggested starting follows for Canadian news sources and information. I’d love to add some official government Mastodon accounts to that list.
In fact, any other suggestions, I can try and improve it. I want to keep it pretty streamlined, Federated services are already kind of complicated and impose a bit of a learning curve. I focused on just Canadian hosted general interest Mastodon instances, with a good list of Canadian news sources. I leave the discover of Lemmy.ca and Pixelfed.ca for later exploration.
Here it is:
Consider making an account on a Canadian Mastodon instance, Mstdn.ca, TheCanadian.Social, CoSocial.ca or SocialBC.ca.
There’s not so much of an algorithm to entertain you, so you’ll need to do some work following, but check out Fedi.Directory, Interesting Accounts to Follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse and Fedi.Tips- An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse. It’s not all-or-nothing though. I would suggest setting up an account on a Canadian instance, supporting that Canadian instance, and then installing one of the many mobile apps for the Fediverse.
For some Canadian themed news sources, I recommend the following Mastodon follows:
Following #Hashtags is also a good way to stay in the loop on a topic. For now, I’d suggest #Canada and #CdnPoli .
There are also Canadian instances for other Federated services, but Mastodon is probably a good gateway.