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.

@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?

@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.

@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

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
@garretble @FinchHaven @potus the account was just federated via ActivityPub but has been in Threads for some time.

@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

@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.
@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!
@potus this is a good message to have show up first on the fedi

@potus Thank you President Biden, Vice President Harris & staff for your efforts! (I wish they weren't necessary.)

🤞🏻 in 2025 we'll have a Congress who actually wants to help people instead of hinder everything. Then we can finally codify abortion rights for all Americans.

@[email protected] Welcome to the Fediverse POTUS
@[email protected] welcome to the Fediverse Mr. President. Sure, I wish someone would have set up a whitehouse.gov instance but this is a start, and at least I can follow you somewhere that isn't the place formerly known as Twitter.

@potus

This seems to be an account that posts on Twitter as well. They mention “@VP” which doesn’t exist here.

I’d much rather follow someone like Kamala Harris. She’s the future.