@FediThing @chris @Paulatics

But, of course, (in my experience) …

Hardly any governments will do this.

Because there's no highly commissioned sales staff to sell it to them.

It's not backed by a big-donor company.
(Smelling like an "impossible to prove" bribery-like thing.)

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@FediThing @chris @Paulatics

Each business and government could have their own official Mastodon server. And yes, official reliable verification of identity and that those people really do speak officially for the organization would be a huge benefit.

(And they could have a private, secret, internal one too, for internal communications. If they want.)

It's obvious and easy. And it's clearly not very expensive. Hard to argue against it.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

@chris @Paulatics

The government of Canada could run its own Mastodon server. Then they'd have complete control over their posting policies, etc.

Any government could do this.

Even most businesses could do this.

Nobody has to subject themselves to the monopolists.