Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.
Another, unrelated, example of the shift in thinking in the Dutch government is about an unanimously adopted motion in the House of Representatives. Last week saw a major storm, and the fire department send out an emergency text warning to people, urging them to check Twitter for the latest updates. However, this coincided with Twitter preventing people who do not have accounts from viewing tweets, resulting in people not being able to see emergency service updates
Yikes
63I love how fast they are with this. Some random IT guy to his boss: Oh we can't use Twitter anymore, let me spin up a mastodon server real quick, no probs.
31That. It was a big thing during the storm, and the fire departments weren’t all known with the Twitter policy changes and decided to ditch twitter ar all after that situation.
15Need to thank Musk and Spez for pushing their users to the fediverse.
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This is the way.
Now their politicians and national broadcasting services just need to engage with the public on mastodon and we'll be getting somewhere.
25The more users Mastodon has, the bigger the incentive for public figures to be there.
I created a Mastodon account today, so I’m doing my part.
2No they won’t, they happy to all pay Twitter for a checkmark.
-3What would that accomplish, people that don’t have an account still won’t be able to see the tweets.
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4Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we're shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.
Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don't moderate your platform, it'll turn into this!
I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.
-10You do know that this server isn't open to registration and is only for government agencies / personnel?
18Why read when you could just angrypost, I guess.
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