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to[email protected]•Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server
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soms wel fijn om toch af en toe een klein beetje trots te kunnen zijn op onze overheid

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Dutch government has officially launched their Mastodon server
The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl The official announcement post by the State Secretary of Digitalisation: [https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685](https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685) In the post she mentions that the government supports 'value-driven' alternatives to social media. In a letter to the house of representatives she describes Mastodon as a Digital Common Good, and that it fits in the larger strategy of the government of using 'open source, unless' (meaning theyll always use open source unless there is a clear explicit reason not to).
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laurensto[email protected]•Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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Germany (social.bund.de) and the EU (social.network.europa.eu) already have it. I think it’s very likely that other governments, especially european ones, will start to do this.

With the internet being so dominated by american voices, I dont think a lot of people have fully appreciated the sentiment change in the higher levels of european governments. Sovereign control over their digital spaces is something that is actually mattering on the level of nation states. Its a way of thinking that is kind of new to most people, as we rarely think about the sovereign powers of nation states, and even less so in the context of the internet. But now were starting to do that again, and it actually matters.

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