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Oh? Any chance you can point to something about these local governments hosting fediverse instances? I just did a quick search but didn't see anything
From the top of my head, there are:
City of Amsterdam https://social.amsterdam.nl/
Baden-Württemberg https://xn--baw-joa.social/
Netherlands https://social.overheid.nl/
Germany https://social.bund.de/
France https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/
EU Commission https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/
Switzerland had a pilot project, but I don't know what happened to it
I'm pretty sure there are more local governments with their own instances or plans to do it , specially after all the digital sovereignty discourse got some boost to it
There are several non-profit had their own instance, like ACM. I recall Mozilla used to do, but I am not sure if they still does.
How expensive is it to have your own instance?
I don't think it is terribly expensive, a lot of (somewhat large) domain specific academic instances are maintained by grad students with donation from academics. As far as I know, many of them are in good financial standing.
It can be as low as €4/month + domain name, see:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/#so-you-want-to-run-your-own-mastodon-server
I could have sworn I watched a video by FediHost about that, but I either can't find it or it never existed in the first place. I have seen some places move to Mastodon, so I edited my initial comment to be more accurate to my current info. Sorry!