Chris TrottierPresident Joe Biden’s Threads account @potus is federating on the Fediverse!
And I’m following him from atomicpoet.org!
Wow! This is as monumental as Barack Obama joining Twitter! A truly historic day for the #Fediverse!
I would prefer that @potus run his own Fediverse server but this is materially better than him not being on the Fediverse at all.
KNova@atomicpoet @potus Not to be an ass, but have you done a temperature check of how many people on the fediverse: 1) don’t care about US politics, 2) if they do care, don’t care for the President, or following politicos in general?
My point is, not sure if anyone has a “forced hand” to federate w/ Threads.
@knova The people who use the Fediverse now are not representative of the people who will use the Fediverse in the future.
And like it or not, nobody controls ActivityPub.
@atomicpoet I don't disagree with either of those points, but I don't think they touch on what I stated either.
Even if a million new instances are spun up that all federate w/ Threads, there will be an island of connected instances that route around it (ie. block it).
Personally I don't think we should be championing Meta doing anything, but again, I agree with your point re: nobody controlling ActivityPub.
@knova I’m not rooting for Meta. If I were, I’d have a Threads account. And I likewise am not happy that @potus is not using a government-owned Fediverse server.
But at the same time, this is tangibly better than @potus being on Threads and not federating or staying on X where his posts are not publicly available.
Nevertheless, @potus will motivate more people to join the Fediverse – even if the means by which he does this is not ideal.