| I'm actually writing a piece about this today for We Distribute. The long and short of it is that it's not impossible, there's just a lot of red tape. Whether it's a government entity, or a large corporation, you're going to have the same issues with procurement: * Finding software that fulfills requirements on auditing and security requirements. * Selecting a vendor that fulfills a laundry-list of contractual obligations / legal requirements. They'll need to honor comprehensive Service Level Agreements for government access, and be proactive in patching, deployment, and mitigation. * Integration with a government-grade Single Sign-On solution like ID.me * Onboarding resources for agencies and individuals, plus tooling for social media teams * Setting policies that respect the First Amendment, while also moderating things like hate speech, pornography, etc The other hurdle for this is funding and staffing to run all of this. None of this is necessarily impossible, and I think something like this could be really beneficial. But, I don't think the ecosystem of the Fediverse (from a platform or vendor perspective) is necessarily there yet. I'd love to be proven wrong. |