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   Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 06:42:31 JST Darius Kazemi

   Everything *else* aside, having a government account hosted on a community server seems an awful lot like having a government website hosted at something like

   bobspersonalpage.com/users/~InternalRevenueService

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     zunda (zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 06:42:30 JST zunda

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @darius It looks great that EU has their own Mastodon server running: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/108220439624357877

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     …might work for coffee… (mwfc@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 08:20:48 JST …might work for coffee…

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     • zunda
     • VWGroup
     • cariad

     @zundan @darius
     There is even German Government, run by Germany DPO
     https://social.bund.de/about

     Meanwhile rumors are that VW is on mastodon.social
     https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-joins-mastodon-concerns-over-twitter-mount
     @VWGroup
     @cariad_tech

     Nowhere there is notice that they are on mastodon.social. Just "Mastodon". So I guess someone at brands.town might appear more legit if they start with content.

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     zunda (zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 08:29:03 JST zunda

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP
     • …might work for coffee…

     @mwfc Nice to see that! It's a pity that the .de TLD doesn't have the second level domain reserved for the governments like .gov for the US governments so it is a little bit harder for non-German people to verify that the server is run by the government.

     We'd always need to verify accounts on generic AP servers by means something outside the AP, like a link from the official web site we know legit.

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     zunda (zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 08:30:35 JST zunda

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP
     • Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)

     @egallager I'm sorry I don't know any further than what is publicly available. I guess they are still trying Mastodon out and may stop running it.

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     Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!) (egallager@home.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 08:30:36 JST Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)

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     • zunda

     @zundan do you know how they went about setting that up? Their profile says it's "part of an EU pilot for supporting and using social media platforms based on open-source software"; do you have the language for establishing that pilot program?