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You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

On one hand I hate all the threads hype that is happening (and am for threads blocking).

On the other hand I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger example of why threads federating is maybe a big deal. POTUS posts on one’s mastodon server, with two-way reply federation coming (?), which can be on a small or individual server, does not ever happen without Threads doing this.

Like, if you’re an author of the protocol like Evan, hoping for your system to make it, POTUS posting over it is certainly a milestone and I’d imagine it’s not at all negligible for the likes of Evan.

Thing is, it was just a button click on Threads because Zuck decided to provide it, which is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

yeah its a big deal because of the spillover effort on how much easier this makes conversations with other gov officials about setting up a fedi server. I'm somewhat involved in this process at this point, and now being able to say that 'biden is on the fediverse' really impacts lobbying for the fediverse more broadly