This actually makes a lot of sense and I am surprised that there isn't a lot of government already doing it. That and celebrities. It's basically instant verification.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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UK government has been taken over by WhatsApp and Twitter - our official inquiries have to beg for access to WhatsApp to see what's going on in gov. Love to see them switch - they could have more control of data retention and promote innovation.
Oh man... UK is so f* up right now. Hope times get better for you soon.
One of the best parts of this - especially if the trend continues - is that it makes the "Extinguish" part of a possible "Embrace, Expand, Extinguish" attack by Meta's Threads more difficult.
Cutting off access to a bunch of tiny self-hosted private instances won't even ping on their radar. But cutting off federation with official government platforms? That's different.
Good, other governments should be doing this. (But even if they use threads instead, mastodon users’ll see their updates anyway if mastodon feds with it)
I want to see Canada next!
Italy will follow soon 🤥
And all other EU countries. Then crimew.gay will defederate them all later.
Damn, sometimes I'm proud of our government .. until you realize its just a bunch of fuckups in one room!