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- Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) English66•2 months ago
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.
- victoitor ( @victoitor@lemmy.eco.br ) 23•2 months ago
Although your sentiment is correct, it must be said this DOES NOT give you “access” to him.
- abbadon420 ( @abbadon420@lemm.ee ) 12•2 months ago
Excuse me! I pay taxes, so I OWN the president.
- victoitor ( @victoitor@lemmy.eco.br ) 4•2 months ago
Lol
- ShepherdPie ( @ShepherdPie@midwest.social ) 5•2 months ago
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.
- Aurelian ( @aurelian@lemmy.ml ) English60•2 months ago
I much prefer the Netherlands goverment approach where they host their own Mastodon instance.
- DarkThoughts ( @DarkThoughts@fedia.io ) 27•2 months ago
Germany too. And Threads isn’t even part of the Fediverse yet afaik anyway?
- Aurelian ( @aurelian@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 months ago
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?
- B0rax ( @B0rax@feddit.de ) 7•2 months ago
Germany has a mastodon instance?
- abbadon420 ( @abbadon420@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
Really? Where?
- ABluManOnLemmy ( @ABluManOnLemmy@feddit.nl ) 8•2 months ago
https://social.overheid.nl/about is the official Dutch government mastodon server
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 30•2 months ago
Wouldn’t it have been better to just selhost an instance? Like, they’d have more control…
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 36•2 months ago
Like somebody already said, this is like president@hotmail.com
- jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 11•2 months ago
Last elections we had in Spain, candidates would use TikTok… 😒
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 5•2 months ago
I guess they can’t help themselves
- realharo ( @realharo@lemm.ee ) 2•2 months ago
You have to go where the people are.
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@beehaw.org ) English6•2 months ago
Maybe we should sell a blue checkmark on that
- AGuyAcrossTheInternet ( @AGuyAcrossTheInternet@kbin.social ) 4•2 months ago
Oh there is. So all is well! Right? (Forgot where I stole that image from. Somewhere on here, though.)
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•2 months ago
@AGuyAcrossTheInternet well, we know from the article that the first result is the official account. The second is a bird site bridge, but wtf is the third one?!?
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 6•2 months ago
@MayonnaiseArch yep, exactly. I mean, if @EU_Commission did it, why could they not do it for Christ’s sake!!!
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 6•2 months ago
Yes but then they couldn’t post to Threads. Which is where far more people are, unfortunately.
- knightly ( @knightly@pawb.social ) 3•2 months ago
Sounds like an advantage to me…
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 3•2 months ago
Not when you’re communicating important information to the public and/or campaigning for people to vote for you.
- sleepybisexual ( @sleepybisexual@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
You do realise, a self hosted instance can federate with threads, its just an awful idea for the longevity of fedi
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•2 months ago
Not right now it can’t
- Annoyed_🦀 🏅 ( @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ) 4•2 months ago
Or at least go for bluesky.
- i_am_not_a_robot ( @i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ) English11•2 months ago
Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn’t really federated yet.
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 30•2 months ago
Would have preferred an account straight on Mastodon but it’s a step forward nonetheless.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 2•2 months ago
Yeah they should have run their own Mastodon server but I can understand they want to reach the Threads audience and until there’s two-way sync Threads it is.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•2 months ago
I mean it is on Mastodon as Threads is Federated.
- m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months ago
Most instances are defederated from Threads though.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 month ago
thankfully i’m not one one of those though
- i_am_not_a_robot ( @i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de ) English19•2 months ago
I can’t because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it’s time to find a new instance.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English13•2 months ago
Not because of Biden, but to me threads blocking is a positive. I hope instances won’t undo their decision.
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 10•2 months ago
@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.
It should be possible to ping him to a post or comment though. (or for him to comment or post here)
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 1•2 months ago
@v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU he should be able to post here, provided the instance is not blocking Threads. That’s how you could possibly ping him. Otherwise, maybe raising an issue could help.
- FlumPHP ( @flumph@programming.dev ) 1•2 months ago
Checkout https://infosec.exchange instead of blocking Threads, the admin made a second instance for people who wanted Threads blocked. Like 40 people migrated, lol
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 18•2 months ago
The capitalist part of the Fediverse, that is, obviously.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 5•2 months ago
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?
- TwiddleTwaddle ( @TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•2 months ago
He’s referring to Threads
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 3•2 months ago
I know. My point remains the same.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 8•2 months ago
Evrything is political:
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112141011967740245
Deal with it.
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•2 months ago
hardly capitalist if threads has as many ads as most mastodon servers
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English14•2 months ago
I was on the fence, until I heard it’s on Threads. Hard pass.
- MarioSpeedWagon ( @MarioSpeedWagon@lemm.ee ) 11•2 months ago
Biden (and probably 90% of US boomer politicians) have no idea that the internet is, much less Threads.
- 🌘 Umbra Temporis 🌒 ( @UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•2 months ago
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.
- Pamasich ( @Pamasich@kbin.social ) 16•2 months ago
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).
- 🌘 Umbra Temporis 🌒 ( @UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•2 months ago
Ah right, thanks :)
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 6•2 months ago
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”.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 1•2 months ago
I would agree with your suspicion but it’s got to be said that their public statements are pretty clear: It is coming.
- InfiniWheel ( @InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ) 1•2 months ago
It would be pretty useless as it is. Even for them. Federation only really mattered for a few people (us), most of their userbase doesn’t care or know so its not like it was meant to be a hook to lead them in.
- FIash Mob #5678 ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 6•2 months ago
As if I need to hear more excuses from that man.
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 6•2 months ago
Only if the instance you’re on is not one of those fuckers that block Threads.
- SecurityPro ( @SecurityPro@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
Why would you want to??
- Dippy ( @Dippy@beehaw.org ) 4•2 months ago
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
- darkmogool ( @darkmogool@feddit.de ) 2•2 months ago
uhm… why?
- spujb ( @spujb@lemmy.cafe ) English2•2 months ago
i can’t and nor do i want to because my instance admin did me the blessed service of defederating threads ❤️