A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
I think most govt bodies do both.
They run and report on their own infrastructure and also report wherever else the masses are.
Really makes sense for govts to start running their own mastodon instances I reckon.
i read an article a few weeks ago that said that our (the Netherlands) government is working on its own Mastodon instance, i hope they actually pull through with that :)
Yeah mastodon has come a long way. I hope your govt manages to pull it off just to prove it can be done.
Then I think many others will follow.
It really does make a lot of sense for govts. They have their instance and can then host accounts for all their departments. People from all over the Fediverse can then sub to them for updates.
It is already up and running, you can see posts from various government agencies at https://social.overheid.nl/public/local
They have one now at social.overheid.nl which they seem to test at the moment. They have a few accounts such as Belastingdienst, KNMI, Rijkswaterstaat, MinBZK so I hope they’ll continue after the experiment phase is over.
The German government also has its own instance: https://social.bund.de/public/local
Also here’s the instance of the European Union: https://social.network.europa.eu/public/local
And the European Union even has a Peertube instance: https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/local?c=true&s=2
