CIRA Teams Up with Mastodon Canada to Support Canada’s Digital Community, The Canadian Business Journal

OTTAWA, Nov. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today CIRA is proud to announce an official partnership with Mastodon Canada (mstdn.ca) to support their growth and community building efforts. With thousands of Canadians flocking to the platform, this unique partnership reflects his CIRA’s mission to support the Canadian Internet community built on the open web and powered by .CA domains. increase.

Best known for administering the .CA Internet domain on behalf of all Canadians, some of CIRA’s mandates include supporting Canadian-led digital initiatives. The emergence of Mastodon’s decentralized open-source network and Canadian servers was an ideal fit for CIRA’s community-oriented mission, leading to a natural partnership. Additionally, Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools that allow trust and protection on the platform. Given the decentralized and independent nature of Mastodon, users are subject to the server’s code of conduct. This includes strict anti-hate and harassment policies.

In recent weeks, Mastodon has seen extensive growth, with its Canadian instance jumping from 1,000 subscribers to nearly 20,000 in just two weeks. CIRA’s support enables growth, covers instance costs, and helps fund Mastodon Canada’s community-building efforts.

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The challenges social media platforms around the world are experiencing are alarm bells that the role of these for-profit global communication networks needs to be reconsidered.

At CIRA, we see an opportunity to help Canadians build new platforms and communities based on open internet principles. We are proud to support Mastodon Canada’s mission to build a truly Canadian, community-driven network based on respect and inclusion.

— Spencer Callaghan, Director, Brands & Communications, CIRA

This innovative partnership with CIRA will help Mastodon Canada strengthen its increasingly demanding server costs and develop critical governance elements to protect the community well into the future.

— Chad Ohman, Founder of Mastodon Canada

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About CIRA
CIRA manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. CIRA also develops technologies and services such as the CIRA DNS Firewall and the CIRA Canadian Shield to support the goal of building a trusted Internet for Canadians. The CIRA team operates one of the fastest growing country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), a high performance global DNS network and one of the world’s most advanced backend registry solutions .

About Mastodon Canada
Part of Mastodon’s Fediverse, mstdn.ca is a Mastodon-powered decentralized social media hosted in Canada and run by Canadians for Canadians.

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