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

Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Uhh… have they not been paying attention to the bans against Threads? Somebody over there isn’t doing their job.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      6 months ago

      They probably thought they’d reach a greater number of people. They’re probably right.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    On one hand I hate all the threads hype that is happening (and am for threads blocking).

    On the other hand I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger example of why threads federating is maybe a big deal. POTUS posts on one’s mastodon server, with two-way reply federation coming (?), which can be on a small or individual server, does not ever happen without Threads doing this.

    Like, if you’re an author of the protocol like Evan, hoping for your system to make it, POTUS posting over it is certainly a milestone and I’d imagine it’s not at all negligible for the likes of Evan.

    Thing is, it was just a button click on Threads because Zuck decided to provide it, which is still shit.

    • fediverse_report@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      yeah its a big deal because of the spillover effort on how much easier this makes conversations with other gov officials about setting up a fedi server. I’m somewhat involved in this process at this point, and now being able to say that ‘biden is on the fediverse’ really impacts lobbying for the fediverse more broadly

    • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      When you visit a Lemmy community, only its home server displays the actual subscriber number. If you visit the community from a different server, it shows only the number of subscribers from your server. That’s the reason I put one of those subscriber count badges in the side bar, so everyone can see the correct number.

      • pedroapero@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I highly doubt that there are 2.8M members on my instance (not to mention potus subscribers)

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    Gross. Keep that settler genocidaire on the Meta side of the fence; if I have to see his shit turn up in my feed I’m gonna get super ugly.