Quinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkDutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitterlemmy.worldQuinten@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareconst void*@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·1 year agotbh - I am not a fan of state-run media, would prefer free market solns where the state has to abide by the rules of the people.
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoimo mastadon wont suddenly become “state-run media” just because Goverment instances exist. there are .gov email adresses already, and emails are pretty far from state-run. since there is (afaik) no verification on mastadon, ill assume that theyll use the goverment instances to prove that @official@goverment is legit.
tbh - I am not a fan of state-run media, would prefer free market solns where the state has to abide by the rules of the people.
imo mastadon wont suddenly become “state-run media” just because Goverment instances exist.
there are .gov email adresses already, and emails are pretty far from state-run.
since there is (afaik) no verification on mastadon, ill assume that theyll use the goverment instances to prove that @official@goverment is legit.