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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by quinten to c/fediverse

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https://social.overheid.nl/@beheerder

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[–] V4uban 7 points 2 years ago

Great news!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Italy will follow soon 🤥

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

And all other EU countries. Then crimew.gay will defederate them all later.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Damn, sometimes I'm proud of our government .. until you realize its just a bunch of fuckups in one room!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] JustinAngel 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Probably a poor decision to be creating accounts on government operated instances. Since they own the server, they're in a position to:

Siphon credentials and attempt reuse to gain access to distinct services
Ban individual accounts
Censor based on post content

I'm all for government support and adoption of open-source software so long as they're not in the position to disrupt how it's used by the public at large.

Edit (my perspective is relevant, but doesn't apply in this case): My nerd impulses outran my willingness to read the link's content. Seems it's not for public registration.

Edit 2: Like my cornbread eating American ass can read Dutch anyway 🤣

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[–] Mihuy 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, I never thought about this, but this is probably pretty good to have right? Might be a good way to find info about something if their sites are really confusing etc possibly

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