Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server

The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl...

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/182346

Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server - fediverse - kbin.social

The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl...

We need more governments to follow.
and honestly, businesses too. There is opportunity here in the business sector, I think.

Definitely. Your PR account being from your official webdomain (or rather, a mastodon/fediverse-specific subdomain, something like mastodon.intel.com) would be the ultimate verification.

Example:

How do you know this (fictitious) announcement that Intel is going to merge with AMD is really from Intel and not from someone pretending to be from Intel for the lulz? Just look at the home instance of the account making this announcement. Only the official Intel account has this home instance.

Could still get hacked, but the point stands that is an extra level of verification.
At least the hacks are then one company at a time or something and not direct to all big companies or people like what happend with twitter (a hacker posted a bitcoin link via multiple popular peoples accounts)
You can actually have accounts be on the base domain and only put the interface on a subdomain. It’s really neat.
Not to mention that they can have a extra layer of legitimacy/professionalism with the corporate domain name and a branded themes.
The German government also has one: https://social.bund.de/
social.bund.de

Dies ist der Mastodon-Server der Bundesbeauftragten fΓΌr den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

Mastodon hosted on social.bund.de
EU Voice

EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu

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