President Joe Biden ArchivedApr 2, 2024
Yesterday, Florida’s Supreme Court upheld a state abortion ban, likely triggering the Governor's more extreme law eliminating access before many even know they're pregnant.

Outrageous.

@VP and I remain committed to protecting reproductive freedom in Florida and across the U.S.
Show threadFinchHaven sfba

@potus

1) The President is *not* on the #Fediverse

2) That is *not* Joe Biden

3) That *may* be a ghost-written PR account for the Democratic National Committee -- at best

Maybe

In which case it's noise

4) It's on #Threads

5) And be sure to do a reverse phone number lookup on that number -- it's in Delaware

So you be sure to send that text, mkay?

6) And do -- by all means -- make note of the "Joined" date:

Joined: Apr 01, 2024

April 1

Mean anything, or nah?

Apr 2, 2024 at 8:37pmWeb
Show threadGarret Apr 2, 2024

@FinchHaven @[email protected]

Not to disagree necessarily, but if you go to whitehouse.gov, there’s a Send Text link towards the bottom of that page that also shows that number.

I wonder if they simply turned the threads federation on for that account yesterday and that’s why it shows April 1 here.

I doubt they could have gotten 2.7M followers in a day.

Show threadFinchHaven sfbaApr 2, 2024

@garretble

Who cares?

It's Threads

I've blocked the entire domain

And look at the profile create date:

April 1 2024

And certainly no one has ever copy-pasted a phone number

No

Never

@potus

Show threadAndrew ClementApr 2, 2024

@garretble @FinchHaven @potus

@theverge is reporting is official
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

President Biden is now posting into the fediverse

President Joe Biden’s Threads account has turned on fediverse integration, sending posts to ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon.

The Verge
Show threadBryan Ruby 🌤️Apr 3, 2024
@garretble @FinchHaven @potus the account was just federated via ActivityPub but has been in Threads for some time.
Show threadEzekiel Apr 2, 2024

@FinchHaven

1) if I can follow a post-only account what does it matter if they’re not using Mastodon software. That’s the whole point of activity pub.

2/3) That’s just as much POTUS/Biden as the Instagram account and Twitter accounts are - unless I’m missing something

4) see 1

5) same number as on the official Instagram account

6) April 1 is when they turned on federation. My Threads.net account from last year shows March 20, 2024 on Mastodon

Show threadsoaprootApr 2, 2024
@FinchHaven @potus I think this is an official account but it would be nice if they had rel=me on there so we could tell.
Show threadMatthew VarpnessApr 3, 2024
@FinchHaven @[email protected] I know, right? Nothing real has ever happened on April 1st! I still have my April Fools Gmail account! Silly Google pranking us on April 1st by pretending to launch an email service called Gmail!