I don't understand why Governments and organizations aren't taking advantage of the Fediverse. Spin up an instance, set it have no comments/sign ups (no comments and no signs up means very little moderation). The Fediverse allows governments and organizations to fully control their instance.

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago

This is what I've been arguing for, with some added detail:

Ideally I'd see each instance run at a state / province level. I imagine this being a manageable level of account granularity for each city and major government aligned institution in need of a short-form-text publishing vector (offices, municipal departments, etc). It would also help prevent account name collisions.

IT infra can be built to push mastodon updates downstream to other social media platforms.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

Its the lack of control. Governments want to have a single point (company) that they can tell "this is illegal, delete it" and then be sure that its gone. Basically all governments love to have a little bit of authoritarianism.

[–] rexbron@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

There was a petition presented to the house... and the response sidestepped the whole petition.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4769