All governments, large NGOs, and news orgs should do this. Maybe there should be a "mastodon in a box" which is a simplified containerized version of the service which makes it easy to set up and secure.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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It's called docker. Linuxserver.io offers very close to "mastodon in a box". https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/mastodon
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Good, other governments should be doing this. (But even if they use threads instead, mastodon users’ll see their updates anyway if mastodon feds with it)
https://www.overheid.nl/english
Overheid.nl is the central access point to all information about government organisations of the Netherlands.
I would love US governments / states to start their own instance on the fediverse. Talk about explosive growth to this community.
Damn a government that actually do something in terms of digitilization.
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It's weird that you use Germany as an example when Germany has been on Mastodon since 2020 at https://social.bund.de!
TIL that I am a proud German citizen. Our government is leading the digital transition in Europe. 🇩🇪
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Please note that this server does not accept refugees from Twitter and the admins will collapse if you ask them too.
Can I follow that from Lemmy?
Don't think so, also not sure how Mastodon feeds work with Lemmy as they aren't really upvoted/downvoted on. Though the opposite works where you can follow communities/accounts from Mastodon.
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This is brilliant. I hope we see more countries doing the same thing :)
Maybe they could make accounts be tied to residency or citizenship, and perhaps have communities that only allow posting to those accounts to reduce bot spam and foreign meddling. Maybe that's a terrible idea, but it will be interesting to see where this goes, and if activity pub will be sufficient or need extending.
If I understood this correct from my interpretation of the dutch server description this is an Instance for dutch government officials.
At least Germany also has such a mastodon instance too for quite a while now. So people on mastodon know that an account there is officially a government account. The BSI (German Office for cyber security) and other offices post there.
This is not an Instance for "normal people" to register on.
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UK government has been taken over by WhatsApp and Twitter - our official inquiries have to beg for access to WhatsApp to see what's going on in gov. Love to see them switch - they could have more control of data retention and promote innovation.
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One of the best parts of this - especially if the trend continues - is that it makes the "Extinguish" part of a possible "Embrace, Expand, Extinguish" attack by Meta's Threads more difficult.
Cutting off access to a bunch of tiny self-hosted private instances won't even ping on their radar. But cutting off federation with official government platforms? That's different.
Working link: https://social.overheid.nl/@beheerder/110684642686045200
"This instance has been technically up and running since Friday, July 7, but not yet officially in use. Please be patient
The instance will contain the accounts of government agencies and will not currently accommodate individual officials."
translated by google translate.
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