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After more than 15 years on the platform formerly known as Twitter, Cambridge is leaving X (www.bostonglobe.com)
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[–] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

Good. I'm curious to see where they land. Most likely Bluesky, but I've heard of some local governments moving to Fediverse instances, whether they're Mastodon or local.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Oh? Any chance you can point to something about these local governments hosting fediverse instances? I just did a quick search but didn't see anything

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    From the top of my head, there are:

    City of Amsterdam https://social.amsterdam.nl/
    Baden-Württemberg https://xn--baw-joa.social/
    Netherlands https://social.overheid.nl/
    Germany https://social.bund.de/
    France https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/
    EU Commission https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/

    Switzerland had a pilot project, but I don't know what happened to it

    I'm pretty sure there are more local governments with their own instances or plans to do it , specially after all the digital sovereignty discourse got some boost to it

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    There are several non-profit had their own instance, like ACM. I recall Mozilla used to do, but I am not sure if they still does.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How expensive is it to have your own instance?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I could have sworn I watched a video by FediHost about that, but I either can't find it or it never existed in the first place. I have seen some places move to Mastodon, so I edited my initial comment to be more accurate to my current info. Sorry!

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