Convener: Daniel Bennett (@advocate@polity.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social)
• Jaz-Michael King (@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org)

Notes

Andy: some blog posts I wrote recently:

• https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/15/fediverse-for-freedom/
• https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/09/02/fediverse-for-government-organisations-a-follow-up/

Also there is this from Stefan Bohacek https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/

Conversation about how to interact with Congress people (for instance but also specifically) and how public/private messaging can work there.

Blog from me/IFTAS, following up from conversations with NYC Dept Health: https://about.iftas.org/2024/03/06/open-social-for-the-common-good/

Organizations like MoveOn, etc use a “bulk message api”, but they have to be permitted to use the API.

For viral campaigns, representatives have no way to know whether their constituents are involved.

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