A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
I think most govt bodies do both.
They run and report on their own infrastructure and also report wherever else the masses are.
Really makes sense for govts to start running their own mastodon instances I reckon.
i read an article a few weeks ago that said that our (the Netherlands) government is working on its own Mastodon instance, i hope they actually pull through with that :)
The German government also has its own instance: https://social.bund.de/public/local
Also here’s the instance of the European Union: https://social.network.europa.eu/public/local
And the European Union even has a Peertube instance: https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/local?c=true&s=2
It is already up and running, you can see posts from various government agencies at https://social.overheid.nl/public/local
They have one now at social.overheid.nl which they seem to test at the moment. They have a few accounts such as Belastingdienst, KNMI, Rijkswaterstaat, MinBZK so I hope they’ll continue after the experiment phase is over.