[dynamorando]

I blogged about this yesterday after seeing a similar post on HN

https://dynamorando.pages.dev/blog/the-public-web/

Though I am not sure the political will exists.

[sanderjd]

Government funding of generic user generated content hosting is a terrible idea, IMO.

But I do quite like your proposal for how it could be accomplished technically through federation. It at least sidesteps the problem of the government building it through their fundamentally broken technology "procurement" processes.