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Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? (wedistribute.org)
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In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"

Here's some very basic musings on what it would take for that to happen. and what some of the hurdles are. Don't consider it a definitive answer, but a jumping-off point.

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[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

One thing that people seem to take for granted is that these government-hosted instances would be open to the public for account creation, while this doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Not everyone can get a statedepartment.gov email address. Not everyone needs to be able to get a @statedepartment.mastodon.gov handle. Just leave it to public officials only.