Submitted 8 months ago by atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org to fediversenews@venera.social
President Joe Biden’s Threads account @potus is federating on the Fediverse!
And I’m following him from atomicpoet.org!
Wow! This is as monumental as Barack Obama joining Twitter! A truly historic day for the #Fediverse!
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @potus@threads.net @fediversenews@venera.social another reason to support #fedipact
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews i guess Bluesky is going to federate as well, unless they see it as a competition and lobbied to move the account tontheir platform.
@atomicpoet @potus@threads.net @fediversenews fabulous, I can liberate myself from @potus@bird.makeup
... which makes me think: @vincent I wonder if you could inject 'now verified in fediverse at...' posts? 🤔
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews
#GenocideJoe is coming to Mastodon. Put on your PPE and the kids so he doesn't get them.
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews The problem? He can’t see our responses to a post - still! It’s not federating. It’s cross-posting.
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews WAKE UP another 87 year old corrupt politican joined the fediverse. its not like he just joined threads and will almost never acess any part of the fediverse. How amazing is that!!!
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews
Hm. Well maybe I'll unblock Threads. I just blocked it.
@billyjoebowers @atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews Why did you just block it?
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews wait for the shitstorm when boosting POTUS posts because they don't have CW: uspol
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I was able to connect to @potus@threads.net via the Vivaldi Mastodon instance.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews Not the least bit pleased they are on the facebook fork.
@TheJen @fediversenews You would think that the U.S. government would run their own Fediverse server. But it is what it is.
@atomicpoet @potus @fediversenews
Im absolutely following him.
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org @potus@threads.net @fediversenews@venera.social how is the current state of threads.net federation the EXACT same thing as the twitter relays and other services that already exist? Publish only is not federation.
@dracoling @fediversenews Twitter has killed API access. And Threads’ federation won’t be one way forever.
Whatever the case, it’s nice to receive posts from @potus.
Joe Biden is guilty of facilitating genocide, and he shouldn't be welcomed anywhere.
Not only the US used it's veto power in the UN SC 4 times (if memory doesn't fail me), the US government just approved a billion dollars arms shipment to Israel (who is plausibly committing genocide according to the ICJ AND disregarding the las UN SC resolution calling for a cease fire).
No sympathy for genocide nor for the people that fund it.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews dang. Guess the dems picked a side in the conflict and it wasnt mine.
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 @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.
> @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 @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:
stib@aus.social 8 months ago
@atomicpoet
My instance doesn't federate with the genocide enabliers, so this is what I see if I click on the @potus links everyone is putting in this thread. Much more wholesome.
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