As misinformation proliferated on X thanks to verified users, a massive account sharing accurate information hit its Musk-imposed posting limit.

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    10 months ago

    No need to seize anything. Deploy a Government Mastodon instance and run a PSA informing the public that the Mastodon is the official channel for emergency communications.

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      10 months ago

      Germanys government has a own mastodon instance up and running. And while different institutions moved away from Twitter over there, citizen do not follow because “there is nobody using mastodon I know” or “mastodon is too complicated”

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        10 months ago

        People don’t need to use it as their micro-blogging platform, they just need to know that a site like govern.xy is the authoritative source of alerts. Mastodon’s default timeline for non-logged visitors is simple enough for visitors to understand and get the information they need.