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If your university had a Mastodon server for students, faculty, staff and alums, would you use it?

Eric R. Scott

@evan I would love to, but I assume universities generally don't want to be in the business of moderating social media platforms

@LeafyEricScott they have to deal with email and Web sites, though. My university has WordPress blogs. I don't know if it's that different.

@evan@cosocial.ca @LeafyEricScott@fosstodon.org Probably they don't have enough team to handle the moderation. My uni had WordPress blogs few years ago but it was shutted down due to lack of will to moderate it while some of them filled with spam links to gambling websites. Emails are handled by Google, so that's not a big deal to self-moderate for my uni.