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Dutch government officially launches Mastodon server
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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This seems like an excellent use of federated services. Now their citizens have a single source for government updates that they know is valid and the government can ensure that everything follows whatever data laws they pass.
At least in Norway it was recently a huge scandal when tweets went private, as several public organs communicate through Twitter and suddenly over night this wasn't available to people.
I think there are a lot more countries than the Netherlands currently looking into this.
Digital sovereignity is a big deal!
This was an issue very recently in the Netherlands, when emergency services referred to Twitter for storm Poly updates... I hope these all move to Mastodon.
The Nordic Council of Ministers set up a Think Tank for digital strategy stuff last year, and they published their recommendations two months ago. They specifically advised all the Nordic governments to go all in on ActivityPub.
https://social.cloudless.world/@ruben_int/statuses/01GYC9A95YPKQZZJXH8VT27JRA
https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-004/3-access-to-diverse-and-credible-digital-platforms-and-communities.html
It would be amazing if the reason it is taking so long is that they are working on a tailor made activitypub service specifically for public information announcements. One can dream.
Now we just need more to follow.
The RSS and API support for Mastodon are top notch and perfect for information dissemination
Not just data access or privacy, but also data retention laws for public officials. While one can hope no nation is afflicted with a leader like Donald Trump, a government-run Mastodon server wouldn't have problems like this.