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This is why governments should use public infrastructure for public services.
I wish the federal government had a software team that made open source software that could be used by all the states.
Imagine if there was a free and open source self hosted alternative to twitter that federated with other social networks...
I wonder what their downtime would be. I hope they'd host it on rented servers just for that reason
Surely there are plenty of people who could be hired to make that not an issue? The same argument could be used for other government services. In the UK you do a lot of things through gov.uk. we also had a vaccine passport system as well which is arguably more important than a mastodon instance.
I'm sure you could, but with this being American government we're talking about, I'm not sure they ever would.
Germany is/was trying something kind of like this? I don't know much about it but here's a link in case you want to try reading into it a bit more.
I think something like code sharing just became a thing in government so I guess it's closer
Edit: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/01/agencies-required-to-share-custom-software-under-new-law/?readmore=1
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Can you imagine a mastodon.whitehouse.gov instance and everyone in the world just defederates with it every time a republican gets inaugerated?
It would be an absolute shithole with almost 0 moderation due to 1a applicability. Defederation would happen regardless of who has gov majority.
Just don't allow random people to make accounts
I can, but it would still be effective for public announcements because Mastodon does not typically require a login to view on the web, and it provides am RSS feed. Walled garden platforms that won't show posts to anonymous web visitors are not acceptable for public announcements.
Well, duh!
Soon when Trump begins his ~~reign~~ I mean dictatorship both Truthsocial and Twitter will be platforms for government announcements.