@blaine I believe Governments should run Federated Social Media instances for themselves - really like the approach of @EU_Commission who seem to be getting the major European institutions using the fediverse to engage with citizens. Although a huge fan of libraries, I think apart from, e.g. The Bodleian, general public libraries (which The Bod is not) are too diffuse to be an instance. (but I may be wrong)
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@blaine @EU_Commission on reflection, you are right - a lot goes on in our local library, and I could use my library card number as an identifier, as I do for some of the on-line services they provide. I have used the Inter-library loan system, to get a book from another county even. I remember it existing before the Internet, so they were indeed federated first !