This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
Cool! Now dozens of people will get their posts!
The more important thing: anyone can see their posts now. This is rather crucial for a government institution’s feed and not true on Twitter anymore.
This - Twitter is currently not usable without an account. You can’t see any posts and there’s no way to ensure that your followers will see your posts. Therefore it’s really useless as a communication channel for government information.
They don’t share anything important on there anyway.
A dozen today, 13 tomorrow, eventually more people will know about it and join. You don’t have to go that far back for governments having any social media presence at all being a very weird thing.
They already have 1.6k followers.
As of now, accounts of their instance have thousands of followers.