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President Biden is now posting into the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by fediverse_report@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 273 points 7 months ago

false alarm it's only threads

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 241 points 7 months ago

Threads

No he isn't.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 69 points 7 months ago

I was excited for nothing...

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Even if he was, why would this excite you? Whenever something goes mainstream, enshitification begins.

[-] lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 7 months ago

The obscurity of the Fediverse is not its defense from enshittification. The fact that it's so easy to move from server to server is.

If lemmy.world enshittifies, you can just move to lemmy.sdf.org without a big loss.

I think that lemmy could use more people.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly! How do people not understand this yet? The decline of platforms isn't magic, it's very predictable and lemmy's core design is specifically meant to counter it. Think, people!

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 30 points 7 months ago

Enshittification comes from the profit motive, not from how popular something is.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I thought the white house actually runs their own mastodon instance when I read the headline. That would mark the point where mastodon reached mainstream use which is an incredible milestone.

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[-] ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world 100 points 7 months ago

Nah. It’s threads. I’m pretty sure most fediverse instances blocked threads.net before they even tried to federate. I know mine did.

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago

a lot of Lemmy did the rest of fediverse less so

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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago

mastodon.world didn't

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 88 points 7 months ago

Mastodon instances need to defederate.

If you want to comment on any POTUS posts with the broader user base, you have to download Threads. Fuck that noise.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't you love how the government is supporting private for-profit businesses? I received an amber alert 2 days ago and when I clicked the link it took me to Twitter. I don't have a Twitter account and the page wouldn't load. What in the actual fuck? Our government is using a website run by an insane man-child for critical infrastructure.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

That’s just the link the local cops pasted into the alert form. They can put in a link to hampsterdance.com if they wanted to.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

My point is that they should have a dedicated public service website that they use for these sorts of things.

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[-] adj16@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Dethreaderate

[-] shininghero@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's also a limited federation mode that server admins can use. Users and posts are still searchable, but they do not show on the public federated feed.
Useful for this exact case where a server may have beneficial accounts, but the rest should be hidden for moderation reasons.

Still would prefer it being on a proper mastodon server, but I can live with this. Whatever server ends up hosting a President's account now has to deal with record preservation laws for their posts. Let's leave that bureaucratic stuff to threads.

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[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago

That would be like Gmail blocking Yahoo, it defeats the purpose of a Fediverse especially when users can already block content from domains they dislike.

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[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

On behalf of the dozens of us here…. Welcome Joe!

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ah it's Threads...

Good that it's fedi, bad that it's threads. They definitely have the resources to run a government Mastodon instance, but no let's stay beholden to the tech companies 😑

And none of them appear to have joined Bluesky yet, a competing decentralized social network running on its own AT protocol that recently opened general signups.

good.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 27 points 7 months ago

I’d rather have them on Bluesky/AT than Threads, to be perfectly honest…

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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Whats wrong with bluesky? I hear this general sentiment about it but have never even looked at it.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

I believe, people are mostly annoyed that Bluesky started yet another (half-baked) standard, rather than throwing their weight behind ActivityPub.

This would be fine, if they were decidedly a for-profit company, but their whole branding is that they want to benefit humanity.

It's also weird that the former CEO of Twitter is involved.
The guy could have pushed Twitter into that direction, but apparently, he needed a separate project to have this change of heart.

Like, I don't know, they've got some things that look alright:

They've open-sourced some things.
It's legally a Public Benefit Company.
They've got the creator of XMPP on board, so that at least makes it credible that they genuinely want to come up with a better protocol.
Their CEO is a techie.

But yeah, I'm still worried, it ends up being a bait-and-switch. Make it all look good for now and once enough users have signed up, slowly transition to just becoming yet another Twitter.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

aaah ok yeah that makes sense.

Also, I love that I was downvoted for even asking why I should hate another website instead of blindly hating it. Never change reddit 1.3

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Joe can’t see your welcome message. Threads can’t see content posted outside of Threads. It can only spam masto Instances, and if you want to comment, you need to download Threads.

[-] mark@programming.dev 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

sigh So Threads can throw their posts out into the fediverse, but no one from fediverse is allowed to post comments back? Why am I not surprised? 🙄

[-] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 13 points 7 months ago

Because it isn't finished

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago

its still in beta

[-] kobra@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

For an account like this, who cares? It’s a one way flow of PSA type announcements anyway, not like Biden or his team would engage.

If I want to start a discussion about one of those posts, I’d do it on lemmy somewhere I suppose.

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 45 points 7 months ago

Dark Brandon would host his own instance, and make it all about chocolate ice cream.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 months ago

Just a totally straight blog about ice cream and cool cars, with no mention of politics.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 39 points 7 months ago

@potus@threads.net

Feels a bit weird pinging the president in Lemmy comments, but come at me, Secret Service.

[-] federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

threads doesn't accept federated posts, it only pushes them.

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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago

@POTUS@femboy.breeding.college is his real handle

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Oh shit, now the feds watchin 👀

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Implies that they weren't watching before this.

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[-] sab@kbin.social 23 points 7 months ago

That's @potus, for those on platforms that can view microblogs and that are not defederated from Threads.

Remember that comments are not federated to/from threads yet. If I understood correctly, likes are federated.

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’

Thanks I hate it.

Also too bad that the White House has joined Meta, specifically, rather than the decentralized Fediverse, but libs gonna lib.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 24 points 7 months ago

Would have been cool for them to host their own instance with just the one account

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

But open source software is communism! Much more on brand for the White House to go with Meta

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[-] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Can I follow him from L.W?

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Lemmy doesn't have a feature to follow users, last I checked.

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[-] Jedi@bolha.forum 9 points 7 months ago

I'm just waiting for the president of my country to start federating, then I can follow him from Mastodon and delete my Threads account.

I see it as a positive thing

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden, has begun using Meta’s ActivityPub integration, making Biden the first sitting US president to post on the decentralized networking protocol.

The account turning on fediverse posting comes only a couple of weeks after Threads rolled out its beta ActivityPub integration for users in the US, Canada, and Japan.

Biden may not be able to see replies and follows as they pour in from the fediverse — and with some servers blocking connections to Meta, not everyone there will be able to see his posts — as those features weren’t part of Threads’ integration when it opened up beta testing last month.

So far, only Biden’s official POTUS account appears to have toggled Threads’ fediverse integration on.

Neither Dr. Jill Biden’s nor Vice President Kamala Harris’ accounts showed up in a search.

And none of them appear to have joined Bluesky yet, a competing decentralized social network running on its own AT protocol that recently opened general signups.

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