The Dutch government has officially launched their own Mastodon server. In an accompanying letter, the State Secretary explains how this relates to the government strategy of supporting digital common goods.
  • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    american headline: 12 states vote to re-legalize indentured servitude in order to pay off medical debt

    dutch headline:

        • Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah Rutte finally got out. It was time for a change frankly. Although he gets a lot of hate I’m sure he tried to do what he thought was right.

          Yeah biking here is pretty nice, always sucks to go to another county just to remember that the bike infrastructure is either bad or non existent.

  • Uriel-238@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Heh. During the Trump administration when all the Republican elected officials we’re shouting Free Speech In Social Media because Trump was getting factchecked on Twitter, we fantasized about a state-serves social media platform that would be as free-speechy as the state legally allowed.

    Not that it would be useful except to point at it and say if you don’t moderate your platform, it’ll turn into this!

    I expected some poor bureaucrat would have to clear all the CSAM but the furry-futa porn would remain, as would all the advertisements for penis pills and Nigerian princes. The hate speech would stay up but get tracked until someone got radicalized by it.