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Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter (lemmy.world)

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[–] Fonchote -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed, not sure how I feel about governments setting up their own servers, but news organizations definitely.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

How would you propose government officials officially distribute verified information? Just for government officials and distribution, that's the whole point of having a .gov domain is so you can know it's official

[–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 11 points 1 year ago

Only employees can have an account on those servers. Registration is not open to the public.