Threads? How disappointing. The White House would do better to operate its own fediverse presence.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Like the EU does
YUROP!
And some governments, like Germany and The Netherlands.
It's generally accepted wisdom that the American government is bad at doing anything at all and therefore should suck as much corporate dick as possible to get the corporations to do things instead. A flawless system to be sure.
While it is of course disappointing that he's doing it on threads it is very nice to see how Twitter is slowly starting to move from being market dominant to being just one of many.
We all hope to see politicians shitpost on Mastodon one day, but it's obvious why threads is drawing a crowd. Because people have heard of it, and it's easy to get into.
Imagine if twitter some day opens its gates and starts federating with everyone. Then the musk takeover would have actually improved the world. Even though it hurt his purse a lot, but that is also an improvement I believe.
If he can't nickel and dime every single thing, he won't do it. Right now the fediverse isn't very monetised for him to consider. Among social media platform, old twitter was not excellent but open. Under musk, x is insular and lonely...'cause who tf wants to share data with it.
Threads != Fediverse
Fuck meta
Threads ⊆ Fediverse
Oh god, please make this a strict inclusion
It already is
Fuck meta!
Good. Fuck Twitter.
I mean, messaging on the Fediverse and on Twitter are not mutually-exclusive activities. I'd assume that messages go out on both.
But Twitter used to have a monopoly, and it doesn't any more.
I can now follow an official white house account directly from Kbin, whereas yesterday i would have had to sign up for either Twitter or Threads. That makes a difference. :)
Fair enough!
Threads is not the fediverse
You're right. But, the Fediverse is ActivityPub, and Threads is using ActivityPub, therefore Threads is part of the Fediverse.
The beauty of the Fediverse is you can defederate from whoever you want. But don't confuse that with thinking that you can change the definition and rules of what the Fediverse is.
If real, then you mean "President Biden's social media coordinator is now posting into the Fediverse."
I'm pretty sure the annoying orange is the only pres/ex-prez who wasted time on official social media.
A nice first step. Here's hoping they make a Mastodon account next.
Pandering scent in the air.
Might actually take this opportunity to spam the crap out his account before Facebook inevitably adds their regular content filter to prevent actual conversations from occurring.
No chance anyone with power is monitoring the Biden Threads account
That's just my cousin Nick!
Strategic Taiwanese-American communication play just got initiated
As well as Alejandra Caraballo.
What will win? People's hated of Threads or Their love of Biden?
Like ten people in all of the US love Biden, others just understand that he's the lesser of two evils
People love Biden?
Yeah. Mainly in LA, SF and NYC.