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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@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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

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[-] lemminer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Can wait to see mass adoption of fediverse over other countries to provide updates

[-] Tygr@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I would love US governments / states to start their own instance on the fediverse. Talk about explosive growth to this community.

[-] vojel@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago

Damn a government that actually do something in terms of digitilization.

Cries in German …

[-] matt@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

It's weird that you use Germany as an example when Germany has been on Mastodon since 2020 at https://social.bund.de!

[-] vojel@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

TIL that I am a proud German citizen. Our government is leading the digital transition in Europe. 🇩🇪

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[-] glorious_albus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

[-] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

This is brilliant. I hope we see more countries doing the same thing :)

Maybe they could make accounts be tied to residency or citizenship, and perhaps have communities that only allow posting to those accounts to reduce bot spam and foreign meddling. Maybe that's a terrible idea, but it will be interesting to see where this goes, and if activity pub will be sufficient or need extending.

[-] Feyter@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago

If I understood this correct from my interpretation of the dutch server description this is an Instance for dutch government officials.

At least Germany also has such a mastodon instance too for quite a while now. So people on mastodon know that an account there is officially a government account. The BSI (German Office for cyber security) and other offices post there.

This is not an Instance for "normal people" to register on.

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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

Can I follow that from Lemmy?

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Don't think so, also not sure how Mastodon feeds work with Lemmy as they aren't really upvoted/downvoted on. Though the opposite works where you can follow communities/accounts from Mastodon.

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[-] canpolat@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

https://www.overheid.nl/english

Overheid.nl is the central access point to all information about government organisations of the Netherlands.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Please note that this server does not accept refugees from Twitter and the admins will collapse if you ask them too.

[-] IanTwenty@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

UK government has been taken over by WhatsApp and Twitter - our official inquiries have to beg for access to WhatsApp to see what's going on in gov. Love to see them switch - they could have more control of data retention and promote innovation.

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[-] shadycomposer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

wait i thought they don't have a government at the moment

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

Can't wait for it to be overrun by germans.

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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I want to see Canada next!

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