Biden’s Threads posts can show up in Mastodon clients.
      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Even if he was, why would this excite you? Whenever something goes mainstream, enshitification begins.

        • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          7 months ago

          The obscurity of the Fediverse is not its defense from enshittification. The fact that it’s so easy to move from server to server is.

          If lemmy.world enshittifies, you can just move to lemmy.sdf.org without a big loss.

          I think that lemmy could use more people.

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Exactly! How do people not understand this yet? The decline of platforms isn’t magic, it’s very predictable and lemmy’s core design is specifically meant to counter it. Think, people!

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    @potus@threads.net

    Feels a bit weird pinging the president in Lemmy comments, but come at me, Secret Service.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Joe can’t see your welcome message. Threads can’t see content posted outside of Threads. It can only spam masto Instances, and if you want to comment, you need to download Threads.

      • mark@programming.devEnglish
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        7 months ago

        sigh So Threads can throw their posts out into the fediverse, but no one from fediverse is allowed to post comments back? Why am I not surprised? 🙄

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Ah it’s Threads…

      Good that it’s fedi, bad that it’s threads. They definitely have the resources to run a government Mastodon instance, but no let’s stay beholden to the tech companies 😑

      And none of them appear to have joined Bluesky yet, a competing decentralized social network running on its own AT protocol that recently opened general signups.

      good.

      • folkrav@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I’d rather have them on Bluesky/AT than Threads, to be perfectly honest…

          • folkrav@lemmy.caEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Eh, from what I could gather from both specs ATProto does address some shortcomings of ActivityPub, so the idea has some technical merit. While a lot of the current Fediverse seems to have settled on AP, it’s not like it’s the be-all and end-all of federated protocols either.

            Maybe you’re just talking about the company behind it?

        • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I believe, people are mostly annoyed that Bluesky started yet another (half-baked) standard, rather than throwing their weight behind ActivityPub.

          This would be fine, if they were decidedly a for-profit company, but their whole branding is that they want to benefit humanity.

          It’s also weird that the former CEO of Twitter is involved.
          The guy could have pushed Twitter into that direction, but apparently, he needed a separate project to have this change of heart.

          Like, I don’t know, they’ve got some things that look alright:

          • They’ve open-sourced some things.
          • It’s legally a Public Benefit Company.
          • They’ve got the creator of XMPP on board, so that at least makes it credible that they genuinely want to come up with a better protocol.
          • Their CEO is a techie.

          But yeah, I’m still worried, it ends up being a bait-and-switch. Make it all look good for now and once enough users have signed up, slowly transition to just becoming yet another Twitter.

  • sab@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    That’s @potus, for those on platforms that can view microblogs and that are not defederated from Threads.

    Remember that comments are not federated to/from threads yet. If I understood correctly, likes are federated.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Mastodon instances need to defederate.

    If you want to comment on any POTUS posts with the broader user base, you have to download Threads. Fuck that noise.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Don’t you love how the government is supporting private for-profit businesses? I received an amber alert 2 days ago and when I clicked the link it took me to Twitter. I don’t have a Twitter account and the page wouldn’t load. What in the actual fuck? Our government is using a website run by an insane man-child for critical infrastructure.

        • Ziixe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I had a conversation with a friend from the US (I’m not, he’s from Like the New England area idk where exactly), he’s very conservatist, like the typical “I own a guy gun and I like it” type of person (lucky that he doesn’t base his entire personality on it), and even he said that both options sucked ass and very much envied that most of the European countries have a sensible system of voting that has more than two parties, since when one sucks go to the another, and the possibility of all candidates being absolutely trash is basically zero when you got like 7+ parties, compared to the two in the US

          If y’all had a functioning government and something that resembles capitalism (a few leading members while everyone else gets fucked around, sounds similar? cough Meta, Google, Microsoft cough and others) and had some competition it would go all way different than it’s currently going