President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
President Biden is now posting into the fediverse
President Joe Biden’s Threads account has turned on fediverse integration, sending posts to ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon.Wes Davis (The Verge)
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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 soc
... show moreThis 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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in reply to fediverse_report • • •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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Otter
in reply to RestrictedAccount • • •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 😑
good.
folkrav
in reply to Otter • • •tanja
in reply to folkrav • • •folkrav
in reply to tanja • • •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
in reply to folkrav • • •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
in reply to Otter • • •Ephera
in reply to EdibleFriend • • •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
in reply to Ephera • • •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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in reply to InfiniWheel • • •kobra
in reply to Ghostalmedia • • •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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in reply to Chozo • • •MacN'Cheezus
in reply to RestrictedAccount • • •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.
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in reply to fediverse_report • • •SuddenDownpour
in reply to fediverse_report • • •Thanks I hate it.
Also too bad that the White House has joined Meta, specifically, rather than the decentralized Fediverse, but libs gonna lib.
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in reply to SuddenDownpour • • •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
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in reply to fediverse_report • • •Ghostalmedia
in reply to fediverse_report • • •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.
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in reply to Ghostalmedia • • •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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in reply to AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet • • •Your state or county is probably using what was identified as an easy and accessible solution several years ago. It was probably selected because it was something any yahoo could easily access and post to.
Now that there are a lot of cheap and easy FOSS alternatives, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to petition for a ballot initiative that required these alerts to be published on a state masto instance or something.
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in reply to AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet • • •Ziixe
in reply to Flax_vert • • •I had a conversation with a friend from the US (I'm not, he's from Like the New England area idk where exactly), he's very conservatist, like the typical "I own a ~~guy~~ gun and I like it" type of person (lucky that he doesn't base his entire personality on it), and even he said that both options sucked ass and very much envied that most of the European countries have a sensible system of voting that has more than two parties, since when one sucks go to the another, and the possibility of all candidates being absolutely trash is basically zero when you got like 7+ parties, compared to the two in the US
If y'all had a functioning government and something that resembles capitalism (a few leading members while everyone else gets fucked around, sounds similar? cough Meta, Google, Microsoft cough and others) and had some competition it would go all way different than it's currently going
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in reply to electricprism • • •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.
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.
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in reply to Ghostalmedia • • •NickwithaC
in reply to fediverse_report • • •No he isn't.
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in reply to Orbituary • • •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.
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in reply to fediverse_report • • •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
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Feels a bit weird pinging the president in Lemmy comments, but come at me, Secret Service.
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