Ask HN: Why don't public institutions join the Fediverse?

German public TV network, they run a dozen channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster) created their own instance at https://ard.social They use it to publish news, similar to how they use Twitter. Currently 8 accounts.

Because their IT/marketing isnt aware if it and there isn't (yet) a good business case? Why post updates on something mostly no one uses that takes effort to figure out.

But if Twitter truly goes down in flames after the "wait and see" window we are in now... Who knows?

The EU has a Mastodon instance: https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

because its not known...i heard that word (Fediverse) but have no idea what it is