atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 2 years ago
I would prefer that @potus run his own Fediverse server but this is materially better than him not being on the Fediverse at all.
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 2 years ago
artemesia@techhub.social 2 years ago
> @potus has pretty much forced the hand of the Fediverse to federate with Threads.
Nonsense. I'm perfectly capable of receiving the president's messaging via other means, of which there are hundreds.
The threads.net domain will remain blocked by my account. I want nothing to do with a company that sold out its userbase to russia to influence the 2016 election.
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 2 years ago
@artemesia Sure, you don’t have to follow @potus and you can block Threads. But the bulk of the Fediverse is federating with Threads and will likely continue to federate with it.
MisuseCase@twit.social 2 years ago
@atomicpoet @potus Not directly, people can make bots that do it, the way there are bots that will rebroadcast certain people’s Twitter posts. You can basically have a DMZ for it and let the rest of us defederate from Threads.
It’s not like the POTUS account is going to reply to us if we comment on it anyway!
oblomov@sociale.network 2 years ago
@atomicpoet This is essentially the nail in the coffin for the Fediverse. Nothing to rejoice at all.
https://sociale.network/@oblomov/112203725365230339GLaDTheresCake@todon.nl 2 years ago
@atomicpoet yeah, no. America is not the world, I would rather defederate from the whole US than federate with threads. And I don't want that genocide supporting douchebag on this service anyway, the politicians can stay out.
noondlyt@mastodon.social 2 years ago
@atomicpoet @potus I have no intention of following him on Threads. There are direct ways to communicate with politicians. This is peculiar logic you have used here.
gigatexal@mastodon.social 2 years ago
@atomicpoet @potus if Biden wins then yay but if that handle is a Trump handle nope nope nope. I’ll buy or run my own node and defederate everything and anyone connected to his lying Putin loving ass
stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 years ago
@atomicpoet Mindboggling, given that this is already being worked on:
morph@morphnet.de 2 years ago
@stefan We have that yet. See the historical post when the government declares marijuana as legalized*.
➡️ https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung/112139495304415295*) feat. a bit of bureaucratic limitations
stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 years ago
NullNowhere@sakurajima.social 2 years ago
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org
I mean in reality
* Campaigns / officials have used multiple services in the past to reach the widest possible audience.
* Likely, those involved with the POTUS arriving on threads know little about the difference between mastodon and Threads and how (and if) they communicate.
* The core problem of validating government officials identities is not solved by threads since you cannot bring a domain to threads.
So really this kinda seems like a big ol' Nothing Burger, unless you're a threads user :cirno_shrug: Even saying 'the fediverse is FORCED' is hyperbolic. His ass wasn't here before, and huge swaths of the fediverse aren't American.Colby@mastodon.world 2 years ago
stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 years ago
teleclimber@social.tchncs.de 2 years ago
@stefan @atomicpoet That's gonna have to be a beefy server given the large number of gov officials and the number of followers and interactions they get.
stefan@stefanbohacek.online 2 years ago
@teleclimber @atomicpoet I'll be happy for my taxes to go towards that!
Cotopaxi@mstdn.social 2 years ago
@atomicpoet @potus I would love to follow @potus, but I'm blocking the Threads domain. It's not worth allowing my, or other people's, data to be mined by Meta and sold to third parties without our consent, often without our knowledge. I sincerely hope the account will explore the benefits of running an account in the fediverse that isn't tied in through Zuckerberg's malignant social network.