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Yeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.
I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.
It's not.... it's the fediverse. I'm completely fine with them having their own instance, it's not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It's a lot better than them choosing some random instance.
Then it should be only for government officials.
I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.
Totally agree. The issues with "government-controlled social media" are a non-issue in a federated environment, and the URL would give them legitimacy.
I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?
What you don't like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456