The feds need to start their own instance on a .gov domain. This would help users know that it’s an official line of communication and not a knock of or satire.
The german government has it’s own mastodon instance at social.bund.de (bund.de is the official domain of the german government). It was set up by the data protection officer and is available to all agencies.
Good, Threads is toxic for the fediverse, Meta is a cancer on humanity.
I’d guess your instance has defederated from threads, as it should
I don’t understand how governments and organisations are still relying on third party’s for critical business communication infrastructure.
That said, my company recently outsourced email, etc to Microsoft’s cloud services, so there is that.
Maybe Microsoft needs to start offering Fediverse services into their business products. They probably won’t because LinkedIn.