The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.

The Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server, at social.overheid.nl. The server came online over the weekend, and today the Alexandra van Huffelen, State Secretary of Digitalisation, announced that the server has officially been taken into use. The server is hosted on the domain overheid.nl, the official domain of the Dutch government.

  • gon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    Governments use Twitter, they might as well use Mstdn. At the end of the day, you can just block the account if you don’t want anything to do with government stuff, or you might decide to join an anti-goverment server instead that just defeds from gov servers.

    • jrheronn@programming.devEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Either way. This would be a win-win for the Fediverse. Allows new people to hear about it and validates Mastadon as an alternative to Twitter and Threads.

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    Finally! This is the first instance I’ve seen of any government participation. I hope Canada jumps on board soon, even if in a limited capacity. It makes so much more sense for a public agency to use a public platform, particularly when it can have domain over its own instance.