“It is our goal to have all government organisations be involved in the pilot”, the Dutch government wrote in September 2023. Since this summer, the Dutch government runs their own Mastodon server at social.overheid.nl. Gradually, more and more organisations have joined the server.

Today, the Dutch Public Broadcasting organisation (NPO) has set up their own Mastodon server as well, at social.npo.nl. Some of the new accounts are for broadcasting stations, such as NPO Radio 1, or for specific programs that are run by NPO, such as Pointer or Zembla. Zembla has been active here for a while incidentally, and now moved to the new server as well.

One of the public tasks of the NPO is to drive innovations in the media sector; finding new ways for broadcasting organisations to reach an audience in a post-Twitter landscape is an excellent way to fulfil this mandate. Will NOS, the other Dutch public broadcaster, follow?

https://laurenshof.online/dutch-broadcaster-npo-launches-mastodon-server/