Accounts like @potus are gonna be used as a one way broadcast layer no matter what service they are on. It's pretty much just for announcements and statements, not direct interaction with people.
Which, when we are talking any political office might be best.
Do you need it? Our politicians take every opportunity they can to push out whatever their message is at any time. If anything we need them to do it so we can at least know what they are saying and keep track.
And it doesn't defeat the social part of social media. Making a statement and letting the masses discuss is just as socially valid as answering every post.
Maybe if Biden was forced to hear from his constituents he might learn that his policies towards Israel are woefully unpopular. Instead he's insulated himself and only hears from his sycophants.
At least Obama got out there and talked to the people. Before this campaign season started when was the last time Biden actually sat down and met with his constituents?
If I want to just hear what the White House says there are a multitude of avenues to be spoon fed the spin.
My point is it's not really that great that @potus is here. Not when Threads is only broadcasting Threads users to the Fediverse and not taking any of the replies. (And I'm a staunch supporter for Threads being on the fediverse!)
But another broadcast channel is the absolute last thing we need.
The one directional nature of the Threads Federation right now is just out of everyone on Threads hands. That's gonna be on Meta to eventually address and put up. Otherwise there is no benifit for a Threads user to hit that Fediverse switch. Why would they care what people they can't see think or how many follow them if they can't even follow back?
@CWSmith that's the case with pretty much every political/important person account that I know of (and on everything social media). They only keep their account for posting and not much else. Following them is like using a glorified feed reader.
@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. @fediversenews
@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@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@TheJen@fediversenews i think someone said at some point that it'd take a miracle for the us government to set up a fediverse server because of bureaucracy things
@atomicpoet@potus@fediversenews 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.
@atomicpoet@fediversenews you might know this Chris - does Pleroma have a problem with Threads federation? I cannot find or follow a single threads.net account from M-m-m-myPleroma personal instance
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@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
@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.
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.
@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 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!
> @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.
@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.
@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.
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