And by joining #Threads, @potus has pretty much forced the hand of the Fediverse to federate with Threads.
In the USA, if the Fediverse is going to be used for political organization, you need to receive and boost messages from @potus.
@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!
@atomicpoet This is essentially the nail in the coffin for the Fediverse. Nothing to rejoice at all.
https://sociale.network/@oblomov/112203725365230339
@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.
@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.
@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
@atomicpoet Mindboggling, given that this is already being worked on:
@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 @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.
@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.
@teleclimber @atomicpoet I'll be happy for my taxes to go towards that!
artemesia@techhub.social 6 months ago
@atomicpoet @potus
> @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 6 months 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.