Been thinking about the U.S. #government and the #fediverse lately, and wondering if 18F has any plans in the works to create a managed Mastodon instance for gov’t folks (House/Senate, Cabinet officials, etc.)

The future is federated, but that’s one world where you want an “official” home instance for official accounts. And would make it easier for instance operators to choose to drop the fed-fediverse if it doesn’t align with their instance’s established rules, values, and culture.

@charlesdardaman Every one of my digital marketing friends have said the same thing about their own small shops: Twitter is a minefield for advertisers, and a potential liability risk for them as well.

Of course, most smaller (B2B especially) companies advertising on Twitter are already pretty much setting money on fire, but that’s a different conversation. ;)

Just a reminder, I wrote a bot that’s posting results from US House and Senate elections as they’re called. It’s been pretty stable for a couple days how, and there are still a few uncalled races. I’ll keep it running until the last race is called.

I’ll bring it back up for the Georgia runoffs next month, only then it’ll post precinct-level results as they’re posted to the Georgia SoS

@electionresults