Trump actually does host his own Mastodon server. It’s called “Truth”. Unfortunately it doesn’t federate 🤣
But yeah, pretty rough to see Obama and Biden still posting to Xitter.
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Flamekebab@piefed.social 15 hours ago
I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Fortunately it doesn’t federate
Ftfy.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Federation is a 2 way street! No federation means his users all get to live out their days in a big circlejerk.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Even then, would rather my government contract out Mastodon hosting to a company based here in the UK than to use the American Hosted and moderated Elon tool.
andypiper@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Absolutely. In fact I wrote exactly that last year.
golli@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Honestly, imo they wouldn’t even need to get off Twitter and other platforms completely. Just make their own mastodon instance (or something similar that they control themselves) the primary source of truth and place of interaction. They could still link and reference it on other platforms to increase visibility, but make sure that all primary information is in a freely accessible place and not beholden to unreliable entities.
nyankas@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Germany actually does that! Quite a few government bodies are already active at social.bund.de. Maybe there‘s hope that other countries will follow.