Reflecting on some of the hurdles for procuring a Fediverse instance for the US Government. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, but is it worthwhile?

In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: “Why didn’t the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?”

Here’s some very basic musings on what it would take for that to happen. and what some of the hurdles are. Don’t consider it a definitive answer, but a jumping-off point.

  • @KevonLooneyEnglish
    7•2 months ago

    remove anything

    Uh, a US Government mastodon server wouldn’t have any way to sign up and comment. I assume it would be all one way announcements.

    Who cares about randos who want to talk to the president? People were posting dead bodies on Biden’s announcements on Threads.