@UlrikeHahn @jbenjamint
Interesting question indeed.
The Fedi has not (yet) attained the (pseudo-) institutional status that Twitter did, and the few political representatives/officials I have encountered here do not often treat it as an official means of communication. Hence they deserve the same right to protect themselves as anyone else.
An official social media account is often managed for an elected official or political executive by a PR team, who can - indeed, who expect to - deal with harsh or abusive communication.
Institutional accounts here are often run by well-meaning individuals who may well not be prepared for the stress it involves.
It may well be the case that the Fedi needs a norm of "institutional servers" and avatars - that is, the (hypothetical) MEP Indrani Ahmed has an official account at parliament.EU but a personal account elsewhere. social.network.europa.EU seems to be one such server.
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