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Boris Mann Jul 12, 2023

The Dutch government is now running their own Mastodon server

In translation, it talks about "value-driven alternatives to social media"

The message I'd like to see governments adopt is a little different: "digital communications is a critical part of civil communication and the government should not be running on corporate platforms"

https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685

Alexandra van Huffelen (@[email protected])

Bijlagen: 1 afbeelding Vandaag lanceren wij onze overheidsserver op Mastodon. In de brief die ik aan de Kamer heb gestuurd over 'Digitale gemeenschapsgoederen' op 22 juni, heb ik aangegeven dat ik twee waardengedreven alternatieven voor social media ondersteun. Een van deze alternatieven is een 'eigen' Mastodon-server die door overheidsorganisaties gebruikt worden. Hiermee zetten we weer een stap in onze Werkagenda Waardengedreven Digitaliseren. Algemene informatie over ons ministerie: @minbzk

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Peter Atwood Jul 13, 2023

@boris I worked for a while doing comms for Canada’s dept. of foreign affairs, where we regularly had to adapt and adopt tools as SM companies tweeked and changed their policies and APIs. This was well before the current Twitter and Reddit API fiascos. It seemed absurd to be so beholden.

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Boris Mann

@patwood yep. Not a lot of thoughtfulness or strategy, just “everybody else is doing it”

It is good to understand where people are “congregating” — but that has to go alongside of coming back to verified data to normalize sources, rather than the ground morass of misinformation we find ourselves in

Digital comms strategy matters. Let’s demand our institutions get better at it.