Not trivial. Slack/teams are built to handle confidential communications with legal oversight.
I don't think the suggestion is for Mastodon to replace internal communication, but to use it as a social media outlet for your organization.
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#22Fair warning about this Mastodon behavior that can lead to embarrassment/leaks as new people start to use it:
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#23why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
I see your point. At the same time, - imho - it is exciting to see how we might witness the beginning of an eruption in the established social media landscape.
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#24why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
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#26Not trivial. Slack/teams are built to handle confidential communications with legal oversight.
the article is from 2022 but it may as well be from 2012. Back about a decade ago there was a huge push in companies toward "employee engagement" and social media was seen as the next big thing. about a bakers dozen companies (trello, atlassian, the usual scumbags) showed up to pitch their version of a sterile, enforced, monitored and legally blessed version of "twitter" for the office. GenZ ignored it, GenX abhorred it, and boomers in the C level posted platitudes and broad, poetic directional sentiments about corporate leadership stuff (or they had their secretaries do it for them.)
check your company intranet. chances are probably great you can find your own 'twitter' clone struggling in an overcommitted vmware instance or chugging along on a second generation Intel pizza box somewhere in a forgotten closet. These things never got patched because the implementation came from the vendor (along with free merch), so theres no local knowledge on how to fix them if they ever break. If you look hard enough, you might even find the add-on "blogging" platform your company got sold when they complained discount twitter for the office wasnt engaging anyone.
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#27why is hacker-news flooded lately with mastodon-related content? it's irritating
The best of times, the worst of times.
Mastodon has gotten a boost, potentially orders of magnitude, in recent weeks as people evaluate their utility with Twitter.
As a new fediverse explorer, it is fun in a way MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter were at first.
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#28No organization wants to do this, unfortunately. Twitter and Instagram are “free”. Running servers costs money, made more expensive by the choice in the Mastodon design to not support virtual hosting on a per-domain basis. You have to run (and admin) a complete new instance of Mastodon for each domain you wish to support.
Yes, as others mentioned, there will be hosting providers doing this for companies. The big upside is that you truly own the content and define your rules. I assume the costs for running a larger Mastodon instance are trivial compared to how much it costs to run ads on Twitter.
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If you read the other articles they've written about Mastodon lately, they make it clear that it's not Elon Musk owning Twitter, but Mastodon increasing in popularity, that motivated them to write about Mastodon.
This post is as neutral of a discussion of Mastodon as it could get. I don't see how this post could be read as relating to identity politics or diversity/inclusion.
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#30If the idea of federated Twitter was so good and so important why did everyone seemingly only get interested in it right now? Charitably it would seem that this is just the topic du jour and "top of mind" for many people due to recent changes at Twitter. But if running your own Mastodon server is a good idea today, surely it was a good idea two weeks ago. Cynically, it seems that many of these people seem motivated by their animus towards Elon rather than their genuine belief that federation is the right way forward. After all, these people were perfectly happy to keep using and promoting Twitter when it was ideologically captured by their in group. Now that Elon owns it, well, now it sucks and is bad.