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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.

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[โ€“] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

I dunno, federated communication systems have a very different utility than lemonade stands. ๐Ÿ˜