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yes, they can all have their private blog/microblog or use something else on the fediverse.

You might have a tiny bit of friction in discoverability but it isn't hard to spread the word when it is about local agencies/administrations.



I would love this. Absolutely love this. Unfortunately, this is not happening now. The vast majority of 'official'/'governmental' institutions/people seem post on Twitter and, sadly, only on Twitter. Maybe Facebook if you're lucky. I've had to resort to using the premium tier of IFTTT to get things like road closure notices for my area.. it's maddening.

I'd love if they would set up some ActivityPub something under their own domain that I could subscribe to :/


Don't know about 'murica but in europe more and more gov and local institutions have a fediverse presence.

some examples are the european commission and frenchgov mastodon instances:

https://social.network.europa.eu

https://social.numerique.gouv.fr

I am pretty sure other countries are doing the same or are considering it. Also many NGOs have a fediverse presence.


Can is arbitrarily complex. Reality is they don’t.

I actually wish the UN had acquired twitter as a global public good than baby man boy.




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