@c43763ee
> I tried suggesting this to our uni comms team and they just went ‘there’s no moderation on that site’

'You want the uni to have it's own website? But there's no one who moderates the whole internet'. #FacePalm

This is how badly 2 decades of DataFarming has distorted people's thinking about web publishing. 

 @c43763ee Also if this is literally what they said...

> there’s no moderation

... then it's just factually wrong. Every server in the fediverse had some kind of moderation, and those that are moderated poorly tend to end up disconnected from the ones with better moderation. 

 @58db300d I know, I know and they are still on Xitter! They are genuinely clueless 

 @c43763ee
> they are still on Xitter!

Xitter, love it! 😂 Can I use that? I've been calling it Titter for years, but I need to get with the times... 

 @c43763ee @58db300d 

I suggested the same to my uni comms team and they were all like: "we continue to monitor the situation to assess the optimal mix of social media options to ensure that the institution reaches the next level" or something like that. 

 @cbdd8ec5
> I suggested the same to my uni comms team

These are clearly not the right people to talk to. But if they're in charge of the IT team, as they seem to be at @c43763ee's institution, that's a barrier to progress in a multitude of ways. In either case, I'd suggest building bridges with the IT folks, and collaborating on ways to treat the comms muppets as damage, and hack around them.

@41683fc7 might have some more detailed suggestions. 

 I too have experienced this. They talk about all sorts of uninformed nonsense about Mastodon. Wait till Microsoft figures out Mastodon and then they will jump to it like they invented it.