The German government already has their own mastodon instance on social.bund.de
Much better alternative to a EU funded social network, as this would automatically drive critics to the assumption, that politicians are controlling the narrative and deleting critical content. Also supports the development of open source and self hosted alternatives this way.
The previous Moz://a Logo was just a pure genius reference to http:// and I hate that they got rid of this clever and unique logo.
At least the new one doesnt look as bland as most of the other rebrands we are seeing recently.