How do you solve for example, de-federation with government owned instances ( which I imagine many would do)
Mastodon suffers the same problem as Twitter, if the people in control of the servers don’t like it, they get to be arbitrate for their users. The solution is not for everyone to host their own instance as it’s just immensely wasteful and complex, and since de-federation is not positively communicated, one can go a very long time before realizing they are getting content filtered unwillingly.
I just don’t see how this problem (specific content being blocked) would be solved by the Kamala Harris’s campaign team having a mastodon instance.
Executive order moving all executive branch communications to The Fediverse.
Problem solved
That’s not going to move the Twitter userbase with it. Then they’d only be communicating with Fediverse adopters.
The media will have to monitor it or they will get scooped by anyone that does.
Once they are forced to live partially outside of that cesspool, they will see the value of setting up their own servers and jumping in.
Executive order seizing control of Twitter to establish it as a nationalized communication system
At least some of the US Government accounts have relays through Threads into Mastadon.
It’s not ideal but it’s better than being on xitter.
How do you solve for example, de-federation with government owned instances ( which I imagine many would do)
Mastodon suffers the same problem as Twitter, if the people in control of the servers don’t like it, they get to be arbitrate for their users. The solution is not for everyone to host their own instance as it’s just immensely wasteful and complex, and since de-federation is not positively communicated, one can go a very long time before realizing they are getting content filtered unwillingly.
I just don’t see how this problem (specific content being blocked) would be solved by the Kamala Harris’s campaign team having a mastodon instance.
I guess the same way you deal with the fact that Elon can ban people from Twitter