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Johannes Ernst

The third-largest state in Germany has an official #mastodon server.

bawü.social/about

(With an umlaut in its domain name!)

Imho all #governments in all countries on all levels should communicate via the #fediverse, instead of via commercial services. Why should a profit-maximizing feed #algorithm, and an ad placement algorithm get between the citizen and their government in a democracy?

5 Dec 2023 at 16:15 | Open on social.coop
11 comments
Evan Prodromou

@J12t it would be cool to have a map of all the cities, regions, and countries that have an official Mastodon server.

5 Dec 2023 at 16:18 | Open on cosocial.ca
Johannes Ernst

@evan a #lemmy group that only collects links to government-operated servers? Plus some metadata (insert some magic here) that links those to geography / jurisdiction, from which a map can be rendered, and perhaps Wikipedia could be populated…. Just thinking out loud.

5 Dec 2023 at 16:37 | Open on social.coop
Florian Schmidt

@J12t
That description made me think of linked data in @wikidata - they likely have all the geopolitical entities in the database already.
And quite a number of Mastodon instances, while we're at it:
wikidata.org/wiki/Special:What
#Wikidata #LinkedOpenData
@evan

5 Dec 2023 at 22:54 | Open on mstdn.social
marado

@J12t @evan Unfortunately, there aren't many mastodon instances with country data in wikidata yet:
w.wiki/8QKg

7 Dec 2023 at 0:29 | Open on ciberlandia.pt
Hermann

@J12t @udob They didn’t name it theländ.social? :wombat:

5 Dec 2023 at 16:29 | Open on chaos.social
Harald R.

@J12t @lfdi
Great idea. There should however be at least an alias without the umlaut. There may be many people who'd like to access accounts there that don't have a keyboard that makes umlauts easily available.

5 Dec 2023 at 19:50 | Open on troet.cafe
Thomas Schäfer

@J12t

...alles. Außer Hochdeutsch und #IPv6
5 Dec 2023 at 19:56 | Open on ipv6.social
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌

@J12t All democratically elected governments of the free world should be active on their own Mastodon instances - it's a matter of credibility, integrity & honesty.

#Mastodon #Freedom #Democracy #FreeSpeech #JoinIn

6 Dec 2023 at 0:30 | Open on infosec.exchange
SLCW💥

@J12t TIL there's states in Germany

6 Dec 2023 at 0:48 | Open on newsie.social
Johannes Ernst

@slcw Technically "Länder" (plural of "Land") but quite comparable to US states.

6 Dec 2023 at 1:12 | Open on social.coop
Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

@J12t I think it should also come with basic ISP services like email. I'm not saying you should be forced to use them but that should come in the basic service level that are in many places now considered an essential service, like power and telephony.

And on the plus side the instances should be fairly easy to moderate since you can't just register a new account if you get blocked (it would be tied to your ISP account).

8 Dec 2023 at 5:40 | Open on noc.social
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