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.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Although your sentiment is correct, it must be said this DOES NOT give you "access" to him.
Excuse me! I pay taxes, so I OWN the president.
Lol
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.
I much prefer the Netherlands goverment approach where they host their own Mastodon instance.
Germany too. And Threads isn't even part of the Fediverse yet afaik anyway?
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?
Would have preferred an account straight on Mastodon but it's a step forward nonetheless.
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Wouldn't it have been better to just selhost an instance? Like, they'd have more control...
Like somebody already said, this is like president@hotmail.com
Last elections we had in Spain, candidates would use TikTok... 😒
I guess they can't help themselves
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@MayonnaiseArch yep, exactly. I mean, if @EU_Commission did it, why could they not do it for Christ's sake!!!
Maybe we should sell a blue checkmark on that
Oh there is. So all is well! Right? (Forgot where I stole that image from. Somewhere on here, though.)
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Yes but then they couldn't post to Threads. Which is where far more people are, unfortunately.
Sounds like an advantage to me..
Not when you're communicating important information to the public and/or campaigning for people to vote for you.
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Or at least go for bluesky.
Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn't really federated yet.
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I can't because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it's time to find a new instance.
Not because of Biden, but to me threads blocking is a positive. I hope instances won't undo their decision.
@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.
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The capitalist part of the Fediverse, that is, obviously.
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?
He's referring to Threads
I know. My point remains the same.
Evrything is political:
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112141011967740245
Deal with it.
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@genocide.joe@beehaw.org?
🙄
Edit: The emoji isn't strong enough, so I'm tagging in Liz Lemon for an assist:
Let's hope they chose a memorable password for the account... a very very memorable password.
Hunter2
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I was on the fence, until I heard it's on Threads. Hard pass.
Biden (and probably 90% of US boomer politicians) have no idea that the internet is, much less Threads.
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.
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).
Ah right, thanks :)
To be clear, this is supposedly temporary and eventually it's supposed to be bidirectional but I will be totally unsurprised if they "never get around to it".
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As if I need to hear more excuses from that man.
Only if the instance you’re on is not one of those fuckers that block Threads.
Why would you want to??
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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