President Biden is now posting into the fediverse

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

Oh, I’m referring to my mastodon instance.

Neither did Mastodon.social or Mastodon.online, though honestly I'd recommend people steer clear of those instances when signing up for a different reason, they're also very widely blocked or limited by a lot of servers due to issues with spam and moderation. Ironic that these instances are already too big to effectively moderate, yet threads is bigger and also way worse (see link in other comment about their moderation issues) and yet people still want to federate with them.

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.

The sooner they use the fediverse the better

how about having the American government just host their own fediverse servers? it's not like they don't have the money to do so

First of all, no it doesn't. The fediverse is about servers communicating with each other, that doesn't mean all servers, it just means that multiple servers communicate, and if a server is being problematic it will be blocked or limited, as another example a good amount of servers limit or block Mastodon.social and due to spam issues. Threads in this regard is no different, it just so happens to be a much bigger problem than Mastodon.social hence why there is much stronger efforts to defederate it.

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especially when users can already block content from domains they dislike.

No, you are deliberately or unintentionally misrepresenting how domain blocks and indeed blocking in general works in Lemmy (Domain blocks target communities and do not hide users or their content), and even with Mastodon this doesn't solve the biggest problems with threads, that being the extremely poor moderation and the EEE threat which are server wide problems and not user preference issues.

No, big corp with millions of users they cannot moderate defeats the purpose of a fediverse.

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

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

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? 🙄

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.

You can comment just fine. Threads users just can't see it yet.

Whoops looks like you've crawled out of your hole, here let me just pop you back in there :)

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason:

It’s true, the reason was left blank. Waste my time.

Fuck that noise. What on earth were we expecting from an advertising agency?

we're doomed

Do you know how to do this?

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

Would make sense too, they don't use default Gmail either. Some other governments have Mastodon instances

Nah, give those National Parks posters a Mastodon account. Way more desirable than POTUS. Also put all those other random gov Twitter accounts on it so they can link somewhere that anyone can read.

Realistically? The EU set up their own Mastodon server two years ago. Of course it's realistic for the White House to do the same.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-sets-up-its-own-server

Isn't it way past bedtime for you two in St. Petersburg?