Q: Obviously most people here are opposed to the presence of "brands" (companies) on Mastodon. I've seen people suggest that they could "have their own instance".
What about non-profits? (EFF, Greenpeace, etc) Any opinions?
@paulsheprow @nolan @CobaltVelvet @gargron agree with most of the sentiment others already expressed here.
I think org instances are a truly fascinating idea, and for real would love to see this tested out.
I will say, I don't see a whole lot of point in specifically "blocking" brands from creating accounts on other instances, but they should be silenced / banned if they're advertising (in which case why would they bother creating an account)
@tcql Yeah, I was wondering less about blocking and more about how people would feel about it. Elsewhere I value keeping up with what people working on behalf of issues that are important to me have to say. I use twitter to read much more than to write and follow ten times as many ppl as follow me. I don't get that as much here (yet).
Regarding tagging you in, I've just noticed that you have helpful input when I see you come across the timeline :-)
@tcql From an outwards-facing point of view I guess I visualized them more as private instances where this or that company controls their own data, and that they'd then just federate with other instances/users, and that not much would happen on the instance itself?
@tcql @paulsheprow one positive use I see on birbsite is UK Power Networks (electric distribution network for a quarter of England) - often the mobile LTE network stays up when the electricity is off supply and they are very good at accepting power cut reports via tweets as well as warning folk of wide area incidents and explaining when the supply might return.
@paulsheprow 🤗
I'm kind of curious what brand-specific instances really look like though. Is it mostly folks who work for X company talking about non-company-private things related to X?
For software service companies this is pretty interesting - my company could easily have folks posting tips / tricks / tutorials pretty regularly. For something more traditional like McDonalds ... ??? do they just post coupons or something?