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Well checking it up they don't actually have their own instance. Instead they arranged an account on the social.bund.de instance, which is run by the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) for purpose of offering official accounts to german governmental entities.
What makes it still "less likely something bad is right next to them" is exactly, that only government official and officials can get accounts on that instance and is for official use only. So thus it's a sterile controlled instance.
I'm sure they could have also spun their own instance, but well bund.de service was already running one anyway so just hop on that band wagon.
I think this will become a more common thing. Governments run a national "official business" instance, where there is only official communications accounts of various government bodies and goverment officers (The official account of the office of the Presidency of the country, the official account of the Prime minister of the country and so on).
Thanks for the extra details ๐.
I look forward to there being lots of unique instances for different applications over time.