Joe Biden's official account is now connected to the Fediverse, thanks to Threads. We'll see if anything comes of it.

Um, yay?

  • Spectranox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    For now, the integration is a minor gesture, as it’s only a one-way connection from Threads to the Fediverse.

    Could someone explain what this means? It it like he can see us but we can’t see him? I didn’t know the Fediverse / ActivityPub could work like that.

    • Pamasich@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      It it like he can see us but we can’t see him?

      Opposite way around. We can see him but he can’t see us.

      The reason you can’t see him is because you’re on Lemmy which will only display microblog posts if they’re (1) a reply to a Lemmy post, (2) made from kbin/mbin, or (3) replied to by someone from kbin/mbin (not entirely sure about this one).

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is, on the whole, a good thing. One should be able to have access to their politicians via piblicly accessible means, and the fedi is exactly that.

    It’s a giant shame that it’s still being moderated by a tech billionaire, though.

  • Aurelian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I much prefer the Netherlands goverment approach where they host their own Mastodon instance.