Comment on The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

• variaatio@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well checking it up they don’t actually have their own instance. Instead they arranged an account on the social.bund.de instance, which is run by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) for purpose of offering official accounts to german governmental entities.

  What makes it still “less likely something bad is right next to them” is exactly, that only government official and officials can get accounts on that instance and is for official use only. So thus it’s a sterile controlled instance.

  I’m sure they could have also spun their own instance, but well bund.de service was already running one anyway so just hop on that band wagon.

  I think this will become a more common thing. Governments run a national “official business” instance, where there is only official communications accounts of various government bodies and goverment officers (The official account of the office of the Presidency of the country, the official account of the Prime minister of the country and so on).

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the extra details 👍.

    I look forward to there being lots of unique instances for different applications over time.

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• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks. I guess I need to go read about it some. I don’t understand how that works.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way Matstodon works makes it a very different animal. Just recently they started rolling out more robust search too, so it’s continuing to improve.

    You can even follow lemmy with Mastodon if you choose too. Depending on your client, and what you follow, it might be noisy to do so though!

    Another cool advantage of a organization or government hosting their own instance is that every user gets name@official-url.tld so no one can impersonate them. No blue check mark systems required.

    But Mastodon also has a simple system to verify an account by linking it a profile to a website too.

    Anyway, I’m just doing a nerdy info-dump now. I’ll leave it at that.

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Anyway, I’m just doing a nerdy info-dump now. I’ll leave it at that.

      Well, thanks for taking the time to try and explain it. I’m trying to learn as much as I can. I’m between jobs right now and want to try to get into some sort of software development.

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