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Eugen Rochko

Following the example of the German government and the European Commission, the government of the Netherlands is now running their own Mastodon server! No middlemen between them and their constituents! Welcome @minbzk!

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Simon Zerafa

@Gargron @minbzk

We need to encourage them to verify their accounts so they can be seen to be official 🙂👍

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xs4me2

@Gargron @minbzk

Great initiative! Leading by example!

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Matt

@Gargron @minbzk

I have to wonder, how do you feel about such prolific institutions using your software in an official capacity?

Is it more pride or anxiety? I feel like I'd trend towards the latter.

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Jorge

@ivanbartos

Any chance on the side of the government of the Czech republic?

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Eva Pavlikova

@Gargron @minbzk welcome and greetings from Czech Republic.

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spinnerter 🇺🇦Fetter Tanzbär🇺🇦

@Gargron @minbzk 🎼Mastodon for Gouvernment 🎶Mastodon for Präsident🎵Mastodon for everywhere…🎶

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serklarvel

@Gargron @minbzk congratulations! I hope every government follow the Netherland example

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snaprails

@Gargron @minbzk Meanwhile the UK government are still deciding which of their mates to bung a few billion £s to to provide a server.
Which will probably never get delivered.

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Macaca Johns

@Gargron @minbzk you want to say that the servers are controlled by the state?

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Hans van Zijst
@Macaca Johns Yes, it's an official state server, run by the state, and only official state organizations and persons (ministers and the likes) will get accounts on it.

We'll never have to wonder if an account is real of fake, because the simple fact that it's on "overheid.nl" means the account was created by and opened by the "overheid" ("government").
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Lewis Scott

@Gargron @minbzk definitely needs to become the norm, whether via Mastadon or some other means.

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🇺🇸Sleepy Liberal🇺🇦

@Gargron @minbzk that's really cool, something I wish my local government would do

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Kay0z Wzjrd

@Gargron @minbzk we could certainly use more democracy in Nova Scotia and Canada. How does this work?

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Musa

@Gargron @minbzk congratulations holy shit! amazing to see Germany lead the way when it comes to innovative attempts to adopt open-source type of tech!

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Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@Gargron Oooh, does Mark Rutte have an account? I'd like to ask a question or twenty.

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Hans van Zijst
@Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 AFAIK he's only on the birdsite. And asking him questions requires a lot of skill: he's as slippery as an eel and will usually answer in a way that doesn't answer any question, but steers the conversation in a direction he likes.
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Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@hans "Slippery" and "slick" are the two words that always come to my mind when someone asks me to describe Rutte. I have no idea what his personality traits are, because he's too slippery for me to grab and take a close look.

I won't miss him. Unless Caroline van der Plas replaces him. Then I'll suddenly discover deep love I have held for Rutte all this time…

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Hans van Zijst
@Bjørn Larssen 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 I'm afraid there's quite a chance he'll be succeeded by Yesilgöz. She doesn't mince words like Rutte, but she's further to the right than he is.
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知耻而未勇

@Gargron @minbzk 其实，各个独立主体，对于大牌平台，至少，应该有类似民主世界对极权中国的策略——“不脱钩，去风险。”
这是极权中国的咎由自取——当它试图将国内民众规训为“受虐狂”，并妄图称霸全球的时候。
‘’庆父不死，鲁难未已‘’，这才是受虐狂之外的清醒者面对极权应有的态度。

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George Goodman

@Gargron @minbzk This is great to see. I look forward to some North American governments following the EU lead.

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Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

@Gargron @minbzk what government of the Netherlands? Didn't it just collapse?

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l00g33k

@Gargron @minbzk thanks to tweeter for showing the way

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wraptile

@Gargron @minbzk this is so awesome to see. Well done Masotdon team! Free communication that is not controlled by evil American corporations will become a reality everywhere!

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Take It EV Podcast 🎙️

@Gargron @minbzk @TomOrmiston boggles my mind that more institutions aren't doing it!

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tomo

@takeitev @Gargron @minbzk

💯 agree

Also the same for Windows/Apple and not Linux solutions also open source cloud solutions eg #nextcloud

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Take It EV Podcast 🎙️

@TomOrmiston @Gargron @minbzk this is different to moving all desktops to linux, it's a cloud service.

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