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I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
Germany actually does that! Quite a few government bodies are already active at https://social.bund.de/. Maybe there‘s hope that other countries will follow.
Trump actually does host his own Mastodon server. It's called "Truth". Unfortunately it doesn't federate 🤣
But yeah, pretty rough to see Obama and Biden still posting to Xitter.
Ftfy.
Federation is a 2 way street! No federation means his users all get to live out their days in a big circlejerk.
it's not like being exposed to other people's content would change them in any way
Why not? All the Fox and Facebook misinformation radicalized them once. Why couldn't they change again?
Because they will create their own circlejerk in the fediverse too and people will leave them alone to do it. Instances would likely defederate from a truth social instance if it were federated. They are also in the habit of banning anyone who speaks against their side so it wouldn't do much good to try.
No, I think it would be great if it federated. More people would come into contact with the idea of federation. I doubt most people using truth social are aware it's Mastodon. I certainly didn't know.
They had to migrate to something else because it violated the AGPL
I had no idea truth social was powered by mastodon. But it makes sense that maga is too dumb to build their own platform lol.
In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
Even then, would rather my government contract out Mastodon hosting to a company based here in the UK than to use the American Hosted and moderated Elon tool.
Absolutely. In fact I wrote exactly that last year.
Honestly, imo they wouldn't even need to get off Twitter and other platforms completely. Just make their own mastodon instance (or something similar that they control themselves) the primary source of truth and place of interaction. They could still link and reference it on other platforms to increase visibility, but make sure that all primary information is in a freely accessible place and not beholden to unreliable entities.