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
@darius It looks great that EU has their own Mastodon server running: https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/108220439624357877
@zundan yes! I love that!
@darius @zundan @egallager Seems to date back to April, when the Musk Twitter deal was made: https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/140088/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-sets-up-its-own-server
@chickamora @darius @zundan ok this has some helpful leads in it that I'll want to follow up on later; I wonder if this Wojciech Wiewiórowski person has a personal account, too...
@chickamora @darius @zundan ...looks like @EDPS_supervisor exists?
@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.
@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.
@zundan
bund.de basicly means federal.de
It is the administration domain
https://bmi.bund.de is Ministery of Interior
so basicly like gov.uk
The governing of .de helps to clarify a lot for those who are familiar.
On the other hand, sad that US does not use .us and mostly went into .com space.
Most stuff is a relic as TLDs were not created for everyone and their dog. Our universities are not even in edu space (I know of few)
@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?
@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.