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[–] livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

How expensive is it to have your own instance?

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

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.