mastodon.zunda.ninja is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Zundon is a single user instance as home of @zundan as well as a test bed for changes of the code.

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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

@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...

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

Meanwhile rumors are that VW is on mastodon.social
europe.autonews.com/automakers
@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.

Mastodon hosted on social.bund.desocial.bund.deDies ist der Mastodon-Server des Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

@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
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.