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If your national postal service ran a Mastodon server, would you use it?
I think the best way to do this would be libraries. If AP takes over social media, we're going to need something like most people having their personal account on a local instance if we want to stay sufficiently decentralized. and I'd imagine it would be a server like mastodon but with a lot of extra functionality to handle community concerns ala Nextdoor.
yeah, local libraries would probably be better. Esp. with centralization concerns - too much power for a national postal service might be bad.
I *do* think governments have missed an opportunity to authenticate identity online. What if the post office (or library) had a way for me to establish my identity, like a digital ID card that I could use online when I need to prove who I am?
Right now, that role is taken up by credit card companies and email providers.
@benpate @wjmaggos Could be libraries, could be neighbourhood associations. Could be churches, synagogues or mosques. Could be mobile phone companies, could be cooperatives. There's no one kind of entity that has sites on the Web, and there shouldn't be one kind of entity that has services on the Social Web.
if they have a website or email domain, they should have a server on the social web imo. how open they make getting an account with them is one question. the other one imo is when we have "our magic moment", should there be a strategy of how to ramp up servers for the average user to join? I don't think we want threads or mastodon dot social to dominate. I'd rather see mastodon dot social helping to bootstrap thousands of "yourlocality dot mastodon dot social" servers.