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President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse (theverge.com) 75

Posted by BeauHD from the putting-the-'fed'-in-'fediverse' dept.
President Joe Biden has become the first sitting U.S. president to post on a decentralized networking protocol. As reported by The Verge, President Biden's Threads account "has begun using Meta's ActivityPub integration," which allows for content, data, and followers to be ported between networks -- the basis that makes up the "fediverse." From the report: The account turning on fediverse posting comes only a couple of weeks after Threads rolled out its beta ActivityPub integration for users in the US, Canada, and Japan. Biden may not be able to see replies and follows as they pour in from the fediverse -- and with some servers blocking connections to Meta, not everyone there will be able to see his posts -- as those features weren't part of Threads' integration when it opened up beta testing last month. But his posts are available, and he'll see likes coming in from there. Or whoever is running the Presidential Threads account will, anyway.
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  • President Biden isn't posting anywhere... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by galabar ( 518411 ) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:34PM (#64365162)
    Someone is posting, but it isn't him.

    • Why I (reluctantly) support him over Trump (Score:5, Insightful)

      by alispguru ( 72689 ) <bob.bane@ m e . c om> on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:47PM (#64365192) Journal

      He may not be completely swapped in, but he has staffers who are aware of what's going on in things like decentralized social media, and are trying to keep up.

      As a bonus, thhose staffers are not overtly planning to keep him in office past January 2029.

      • You want a bunch of first job genz running the country??

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward

          You want a bunch of first job genz running the country??

          All hail Emperor Trump

          Isn't first past the post great.

      • > staffers are not overtly planning to keep him in office past January 2029

        BlueAnon is not healthy, man. Who is telling you these things?

        Get some space from them.

    • Re:President Biden isn't posting anywhere... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:59PM (#64365222) Homepage Journal

      It's his Press Secretary.

      She often makes a mistaken post under her account and then deletes it and puts it under his account.

      He said yesterday he has no idea about social media posts (and blamed Republicans for what his account said).

      So, yeah, this article is disingenuous .

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        Links for these claims?

      • Re:President Biden isn't posting anywhere... (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Darinbob ( 1142669 ) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:40PM (#64365312)

        Whereas with Trump you know the posts at 3am are from him, because no other human can write gibberish the way a senile Trump can.

        • Rules for Radicals: accuse them of what you're guilty of.

          You can post countless more times that Biden is well and Trump is mentally defective but the bulk of the voters have said in multiple polls and surveys they believe the opposite. But you do you, maybe someone living under a rock the last 4 years will be convinced.

          • I didn't say Biden was well, but he is more well than Trump. I don't want to vote for Biden, he's not at all what I want in a president, however I'm forced to vote for him because the alternative will be disastrous. Mediocre beats bad any day.

    • Someone is posting, but it isn't him.

      Whoever it is at least understands how to use the Shift/Caps-Lock keys appropriately, unlike that other guy. :-)

    • Unless there was a connection to ICE CREAM.
    • Someone is running the government, but it isn't him.

    • And itâ(TM)s not the fediverse if nobody can nor has federated either.

  • Wasn't Usenet fairly decentralized?

  • Watching AI Biden debate AI Trump. https://www.twitch.tv/trumporb... [twitch.tv]

  • Nazi control freaks.

  • That would have been great (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:23PM (#64365280)

    if he hadn't posted in the Fediverse through fucking Facebook. I would have been more impressed if he had done it directly on Mastodon or Lemmy.

    This is sending all the wrong messages. Thanks whoever-runs-Biden's-internet-PR :(

    • Re:That would have been great (Score:4, Interesting)

      by geekmux ( 1040042 ) on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:48AM (#64365874)

      if he hadn't posted in the Fediverse through fucking Facebook. I would have been more impressed if he had done it directly on Mastodon or Lemmy.

      This is sending all the wrong messages.

      perhaps your request is too. From Fediverse Wiki:

      While a traditional social networking site will host all its content on servers owned by the parent company, the decentralized social media sites that make up the fediverse allow any individual or organization to host their own servers (referred to as an "instance").

      The US Government should certainly justify their own “instance”, but more to the point the US Government should not be reliant on ANY social media platform for communication. All that does is guarantee that organization gets a Too Big To Fail get out of jail free card, inviting absolute corruption. Nope. Don’t need any more of that shit.

    • This is sending all the wrong messages. Thanks whoever-runs-Biden's-internet-PR :(

      It's a step in the right direction though. Supported by Facebook is still better than simply posting on a privately run media company. Or worse, creating your own horseshit distributor and claiming it is where the Truth is spoken.

  • The fediverse, decentralised echo chambers
    • Echo chambers filled with reporters and bots.

    • Threads is not decentralized either (nor is Mastodon), the servers are centralized and the management is centralized and with Threads and Mastodon, they are the sole gatekeeper as to what is and isnâ(TM)t allowed to federate on the network. Itâ(TM)s like saying Linux is a decentralized, federated operating system just because you can run your own.

  • Oh please, this isn't actually from Biden, he probably thinks the internet is some kind of fax machine.
    There's likely a whole government department just to make these posts supposedly from him.

    • Good. The President of the United States should be spending time on more important things than maintaining a social media presence.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by JustNiz ( 692889 )

        I agree with you, that said, currying favour with the electorate probably rates pretty highly on the list of important things to do as a president, especially around election time.
        My point wasn't around how he is actually spending his time, but that someone is doing things (in this case communicating to millions of people) while assuming the identity of the president of the US, which I'm pretty sure is illegal, and if not it should be.

  • Biden probably already has more followers on fediverse than truth has registered users. lmao

  • having an address like
    @potus@threads.net is like having

    potus@hotmail.com for your email or something... It should be @potus@whitehouse.gov

  • Sounds like he got de-platformed from Truth Social.

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