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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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Truth Social is already literally a Mastodon instance. They just don't federate with anything else.

Trump could open up federation, but that would ruin their safe space, I mean echo chamber.

[–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They would also be instantly defederated by like 90% of the fediverse

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And 9% of the rest would just be griefing them

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Gab is in kind of the same place, with the same conclusion.

"Oh no, keeping a walled garden actually increases the value of my echo chamber! Better not open anything up to dissenting views!"