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Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)
submitted 9 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"

Here's some very basic musings on what it would take for that to happen. and what some of the hurdles are. Don't consider it a definitive answer, but a jumping-off point.

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The German government has been doing it for their various agencies for years

They saw Facebook a national security threat and Twitter getting bought by a censoring fascist was the final straw for a lot of German ministries to switch to accounts on the German government run Mastodon instance.

[-] thetaT@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

the EU has its own instance aswell

[-] Feyter@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

Also the Dutch...

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I like that, but they forced me to use their solutions, which I didn't appreciate. The only remote communication software they prepared was a horrible free software project that has been in maintenance mode for 20 years... I was surprised to see it compiled. The connection was horrible because it assumed ~'90s technologies.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 7 points 9 months ago

What are you talking about? Mastodon is actively updated and you can run your own instance to communicate with these German agencies

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