I’m absolutely in favour of cantons and the federal government itself creating their own mastodon servers to make announcements from. Regular people could interact with them, but only official entities would have user accounts there. I could imagine accounts like @Winterthur and @Wetzikon, as well as @BAG (plus @OFSP and @UFSP for French and Italian) and @BAFU etc.
A major benefit would be that the mere fact that the home instances of those accounts are government owned would be better verification than something like Twitter or Threads could ever offer.
Is that the real BAG mastodon account or a fake? Well, does it have admin.ch or ch.ch as its home domain (or something like mstdn.admin.ch, point is the base domain is government owned)? If not, it’s a fake.
I’m absolutely in favour of cantons and the federal government itself creating their own mastodon servers to make announcements from. Regular people could interact with them, but only official entities would have user accounts there. I could imagine accounts like @Winterthur and @Wetzikon, as well as @BAG (plus @OFSP and @UFSP for French and Italian) and @BAFU etc.
This, would love to see something like this.
A major benefit would be that the mere fact that the home instances of those accounts are government owned would be better verification than something like Twitter or Threads could ever offer.
Is that the real BAG mastodon account or a fake? Well, does it have admin.ch or ch.ch as its home domain (or something like mstdn.admin.ch, point is the base domain is government owned)? If not, it’s a fake.