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RestrictedAccount ,

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

FreudianCafe ,

Genocide Joe

Retrograde ,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

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

FreudianCafe ,

Geno joe hoe

Retrograde ,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Whoops forgot to shut the lid on your hole.

There we go.

FreudianCafe ,

?

DdCno1 ,

Humor doesn't translate well into Russian, does it?

otter , (edited )

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 ,

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

tanja ,

Neither is good

folkrav ,

Eh, from what I could gather from both specs ATProto does address some shortcomings of ActivityPub, so the idea has some technical merit. While a lot of the current Fediverse seems to have settled on AP, it’s not like it’s the be-all and end-all of federated protocols either.

Maybe you’re just talking about the company behind it?

tanja ,

AT does have some advantages, but I strongly prefer the whole philosophy behind AP.

And yes, bsky doesn’t really inspire me with confidence.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

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

sorghum ,
@sorghum@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s run by Jack. The same Jack, founder of Twitter that was at the helm while Twitter went to shit before Musk got it. I know Musk era has been really bad, but it was getting really bad under Jack. I wouldn’t trust a social network run by him or Musk or Zuck.

Ephera ,

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.

planish ,

They also have Paul Frazee, who is the Beaker Browser dude and one of the Secure Scuttlebutt dudes. And also whyrusleeping, one of the IPFS dudes. So if they manage to enshittify it won’t be because they forgot to hire enough “Wizard Utopians” with decentralization experience.

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

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

Vigilante ,

No its betterthanreddit.com

EdibleFriend ,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Smaller, less content but all the toxicity you have come to know and love!

Vigilante ,

Nailed it

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@mark@programming.dev avatar

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? 🙄

Blisterexe ,

its still in beta

InfiniWheel ,

Because it isn’t finished

mark ,
@mark@programming.dev avatar

I hope you’re right!

kobra ,

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.

Chozo ,

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

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly, and that’s most of the users.

MacNCheezus ,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

If you think that he personally goes anywhere near this I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya…

All of his social media accounts are handled by his PR team. He probably doesn’t even know what’s on them.

sab ,

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.

Xepher ,

That’s correct

SuddenDownpour ,

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 ,

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

hydroptic ,

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

MBM ,

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

Zaktor ,

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.

CarbonIceDragon ,
@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social avatar

Funnily enough the instance my masto is on also uses that motto, tho for an entirely different reason

BirdEnjoyer ,

Its a vague undulation in a direction I think most folks here would probably prefer?

That's kinda all you can realistically hope for a lot of the time

SuddenDownpour ,

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.

pcmag.com/…/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-sets…

BirdEnjoyer ,

I mean more in the broad sense- to hope that there's going to be any action at all towards something one personally likes.

My standards are pretty low I guess.

autotldr Bot ,

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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