The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@[email protected]) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

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If the US Government can't setup and run their own Mastodon instance then something is seriously wrong with their IT infrastructure management functions 🫤🤦‍♂️

@simonzerafa @Gargron @[email protected] it's not that they can't, it's that they don't see the point when someone else will do it for them for free.
@stinerman @simonzerafa @Gargron @[email protected] It's not free to take on part of the deservedly bad reputation of Facebook, it's just without *direct* monetary cost.