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You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

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Joe Biden's official account is now connected to the Fediverse, thanks to Threads. We'll see if anything comes of it.

Um, yay?

Fediverse @lemmy.world You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

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This is, on the whole, a good thing. One should be able to have access to their politicians via piblicly accessible means, and the fedi is exactly that.

It's a giant shame that it's still being moderated by a tech billionaire, though.

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- Although your sentiment is correct, it must be said this DOES NOT give you "access" to him.
  
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  Excuse me! I pay taxes, so I OWN the president.
  
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- Do you really think Joe Biden is sitting on his phone scrolling through the Fediverse and reading comments from us while he's taking a dump?
  
  I seriously doubt it's anyone but some young PR person.
  
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I much prefer the Netherlands goverment approach where they host their own Mastodon instance.

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- Germany too. And Threads isn't even part of the Fediverse yet afaik anyway?
  
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  I am a bit confused by the status of that, I know Lemmy instances are already defedrating from meta so it must be part of it right?
  
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  Germany has a mastodon instance?
  
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- Really? Where?
  
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  https://social.overheid.nl/about is the official Dutch government mastodon server
  
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Would have preferred an account straight on Mastodon but it's a step forward nonetheless.

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- Yeah they should have run their own Mastodon server but I can understand they want to reach the Threads audience and until there’s two-way sync Threads it is.
  
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- I mean it is on Mastodon as Threads is Federated.
  
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  Most instances are defederated from Threads though.
  
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Wouldn't it have been better to just selhost an instance? Like, they'd have more control...

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- Like somebody already said, this is like president@hotmail.com
  
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  Last elections we had in Spain, candidates would use TikTok... 😒
  
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  @MayonnaiseArch yep, exactly. I mean, if @EU_Commission did it, why could they not do it for Christ's sake!!!
  
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  Maybe we should sell a blue checkmark on that
  
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- Yes but then they couldn't post to Threads. Which is where far more people are, unfortunately.
  
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  Sounds like an advantage to me..
  
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  You do realise, a self hosted instance can federate with threads, its just an awful idea for the longevity of fedi
  
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- Or at least go for bluesky.
  
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  Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn't really federated yet.
  
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- If they have more control, then it's less believable what they provide.
  
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  @thingsiplay are you referring to the credibility of the information itself? That does not depend on this. They can say whatever they want, whether the server is self hosted or not.
  
  The credibility of the information is given by those who verify what these people said.
  
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I can't because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it's time to find a new instance.

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- Not because of Biden, but to me threads blocking is a positive. I hope instances won't undo their decision.
  
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- @i_am_not_a_robot Lemmy itself does not allow you to follow people, that's why you cannot see him (unless he posts/comments something on Lemmy).
  
  Kbin is the closest thing to Lemmy that allows you to follow individual persons.
  
  @hedge
  
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  It should be possible to ping him to a post or comment though. (or for him to comment or post here)
  
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- Checkout https://infosec.exchange instead of blocking Threads, the admin made a second instance for people who wanted Threads blocked. Like 40 people migrated, lol
  
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The capitalist part of the Fediverse, that is, obviously.

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- Groan. I’m on a mastodon server and a full believer in the free market. Can we not force this left/right conjecture onto server choice too, please?
  
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  He's referring to Threads
  
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- hardly capitalist if threads has as many ads as most mastodon servers
  
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@genocide.joe@beehaw.org?

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- 🙄
  
  Edit: The emoji isn't strong enough, so I'm tagging in Liz Lemon for an assist:
  
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  Let's hope they chose a memorable password for the account... a very very memorable password.
  
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  So... you support the genocide that Joe Biden is enabling?
  
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I was on the fence, until I heard it's on Threads. Hard pass.

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Biden (and probably 90% of US boomer politicians) have no idea that the internet is, much less Threads.

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For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.

Could someone explain what this means? It it like he can see us but we can't see him? I didn't know the Fediverse / ActivityPub could work like that.

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- It it like he can see us but we can’t see him?
  
  Opposite way around. We can see him but he can't see us.
  
  The reason you can't see him is because you're on Lemmy which will only display microblog posts if they're (1) a reply to a Lemmy post, (2) made from kbin/mbin, or (3) replied to by someone from kbin/mbin (not entirely sure about this one).
  
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  Ah right, thanks :)
  
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  Test comment
  
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- Considering I can see him from kbin, it probably means he can't see us.
  
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Only if the instance you’re on is not one of those fuckers that block Threads.

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As if I need to hear more excuses from that man.

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Why would you want to??

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I'm happy with this. I think it's good to have the presidents team being in as many places as possible to hear people

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uhm.... why?

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i can’t and nor do i want to because my instance admin did me the blessed service of defederating threads ❤️

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ugh. Fuck threads.

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You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

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