It’s not… it’s the fediverse. I’m completely fine with them having their own instance, it’s not like they control it by any means. Hell they can be defederated. It’s a lot better than them choosing some random instance.
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cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoYeah, but then again, do you want a government controlled social media? 🤔
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 weeks ago
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Then it should be only for government officials.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 weeks ago
Correct. It would only be for government officials, so anyone federated with them would know that they are in fact, validated as the government official.
alilbee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think the distributed nature of Mastodon keeps government control from being an issue. It would be kind of cool as a space for citizens to ask for assistance or air grievances while giving the politicians an officially owned space for things like announcements.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Totally agree. The issues with “government-controlled social media” are a non-issue in a federated environment.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?
electricprism@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
What you don’t like pot holes in your roads? XD We can easily host our own server where the database password is already 123456
veeesix@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The government could control social media on their own instance, sure.
I think having government accounts come from an official instance would garner more trust in the platform.
thesocavault@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
People don’t trust the government all the time, they are a bunch of sneaky buggers you know.
Emmie@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
This is healthy attitude but irrelevant to the point