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Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Also the Dutch...

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