The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@[email protected]) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

@Gargron

I can't figure out how to follow him.

And when I try searching, I see multiple check-marked POTUS accounts, but none are the actual POTUS.

@sharoz @Gargron

I just clicked on the blue potus link in Gargron's post ... it went straight to potus on Threads & followed ... job done :))

Hopefully there might be a list of ok accounts to follow somewhere :)

@RobertJackson58585858 @Gargron

And that's the problem with mastodon - I never know if I'm doing something wrong or if my server is restricting me somehow. It's like automated gaslighting.