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Either way. This would be a win-win for the Fediverse. Allows new people to hear about it and validates Mastadon as an alternative to Twitter and Threads.
And the government shouldn't depend on private companies (specially foreign ones) for their communications and emergency messages alerts.
They are instead depending on mostly foreign volunteers. I don't really think the category of employment matters as much as that it is open source.
Its a little different though, because they host their own server and can verify updates before pushing them onto their own hardware. So they arent dependent on foreign volunteers in the same way that they were dependent on foreign servers when using twitter.
100% agree its the open source and decentralized nature that matters more than whos employed where :)