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Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server?
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Personally I think the biggest hurdle will be moderation and defederation as it pertains to the first amendment. I believe there was already a supreme Court case where blocking a user on Twitter (from an official govt account) was deemed unconstitutional. This precedent might mean a govt instance is not allowed to defederate with any other server unless they defederate with all(?) This is pure speculation on my part, but I can guarantee it would go to the courts.
I think it would make sense to allow blocking users and entire instances that are very clearly not American based and thus don't have the same rights here, but obviously should be open to all Americans since we'd be paying for it, presumably.