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I think no government should depend on any commercial platform to communicate with its citizens. As low tech as possible and workable would be best I suppose, so maybe just a website? Mastodon could work too I guess.

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RSS feed maybe

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But who has an RSS reader (app) these days? Everyone has a web browser. Still an RSS feed would be a lot better than anything controlled by a commercial party, X, Facebook, whateverโ€ฆ

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Feedly is a nice one. Using it for years and I can choose the media I want to follow.

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Honestly it just seems nutty to me that every sovereign government isnโ€™t running its own mastodon instance for PR stuff.

They can continue posting to xitter if they really want.

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Everything mission critical to the governent should be open source and secure in my opinion. Of course using mastodon would be nice but what is extremely important is to start using linux insead of microsoft and similar examples because they pose a genuine risk.

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just talked with a coworker about that. europe is heavily relying on microsoft products and investing a lot of money into them. we are certain, that all that money can easily pay for an expert team to develop and maintain a eu-gov linux distro.

i know that certain military branches maintain a hardened version of different linux distros for critical systems. why not take this to the next level and have an expert team maintaining your OS?

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As opposed to Linux, which poses a penguin risk.

Puns aside, I completely agree with you, but that one might be either the best or the worst thing to happen to OSS. Best case scenario the govt. ensures critical technology is funded and maintained, is invested in and essentially brings a sustainable model for maintainers. Worst case, open source is regulated out of existence as we know it. There was a piece of EU legislation that thankfully didnโ€™t pass, which wouldโ€™ve resulted in just that. Hereโ€™s a reference, sorry I donโ€™t have the time right now for a better one.

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Thanks for sharing

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It shouldโ€™ve been done already!

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Tbh, what Iโ€™ve understood EU has been trying to help create it for years. It just never got wings to fly. Maybe now thereโ€™s enough lift.

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