Gregory's ServerThe fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) 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.
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 @Gargron hmmmm doesn't appear followable from the desktop interface, maybe I'm just missing something?  @JustAnotherJay It doesn't work from mstdn.ca. Seems like threads is blocking you guys or something @stephanie @Gargron hrmmmm well that's dumb. Explains the 404 when I click on @potus@threads.net from the search box. @chad any ideas here?  @Gargron I'm just here for cat pictures and rants about how much working in tech sucks. If the apocalypse happens and I need to hear a speech from the POTUS, then there's a shortwave radio for that.  If the US Government can't setup and run their own Mastodon instance then something is seriously wrong with their IT infrastructure management functions 🫤🤦♂️  Potus on #fediverse is the best fediverse news of 2024 so far. Now let's make some dark Brandon emojis please. The chatter and engagement that @potus is bringing to the fediverse is amazing and good for everyone, even the ones who oppose it. Blocking instead of laying out their claims is absurd. @simonharper @potus @ivory Threads users have to opt-in to federation on their side, but anyone who has opted-in, yes, it's just like following any Mastodon user. @Gargron @simonharper @potus @ivory Except the threads user won’t see comments, so it’s mostly one way  @gargron If the first part of your statement actually described a huge win, there wouldn't be any need for the White House to ever follow up on the second part. This level of submissiveness to Threads is starting to look extremely pathetic.
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 @Gargron @potus that's why we're are here. We hope to see #TheGreenParty here which has been talked about and with elections coming up, would be nice opportunity to join the #Fediverse to connect with those that #WantGreenVoteGreen and can help #GetGreensElected . #SolarPunk #StarTrek  Is it possible to have the @potus account mirrored to Mastodon so we don't have to remove our personal domain block on threads? Not using Threads, Bluesky, or Twitter  Governments active in the #fediverse with their own Mastodon servers: - CH 🇨🇭: https://social.admin.ch  @Gargron my instance has threads blocked, which is fine with me but I want to see official US gov Mastodon servers!  Seconded! Governments should run their own web servers, and government agencies and officials should not have accounts or keep data on any private ones.  Yes, that's what I thought last night, that would be SUCH a win, terrific. It would be nice to have an official server for the Whitehouse, for instance, where all the government could have an account. Lovely, wonderful, all for it ❤   @Gargron @potus whitehouse.gov would be a great idea, but you could go even further and federate down to the local level. It obviously varies from country to country, but in the U.S. we have well established high quality distributed library infrastructure (stuff and people). Why not resource them to provide ActivityPub services for their communities?  @Gargron Yes, we can follow (as we could with Twitter bots relaying Tweets to the fediverse). But we can't see replies from threads (unless we happen to follow the person who is replying on threads). That may be a good thing, though. And potus (and everyone else on Threads) can't see our replies. So it's all a bit one-way (like the afforementioned bots).   @Gargron I‘ll wait for a social.gov instance that is native instead of promoting a one-way street that leads to Meta/Facebook. And I am happy that your software allows me to block threads.net. Please don’t change that :)  @Gargron I can't follow him, my instance blocks Threads. And I don't want to be on any instance that doesn't.  ironically, it's American law (namely the First Amendment) which disallows whitehouse.gov (for example) from running a mastodon (or other #fediverse) instance. They would probably be, by law, disallowed from moderating bad posts/accounts. Other countries don't have this legal limitation, which is why so many other governments have their own #fedi instances. But yeah, not federating with threads, hell no. It speaks volumes about their influence on US politics now, too.  @Gargron @potus Honestly, I don't think any institutions should run their accounts on somebody else's instances. @potus@us.gov along with all of Congress and other federal government reps on it that doesn't then have to share any of Facebook's deservedly bad reputation. Same for states or companies, they should run their own instances for complete ownership of their content and distribution. @Gargron Why in the name of all that is decent would anyone want to follow a stinking #WarCriminal like #GenocideJoe?    @Gargron Cool, so Mastodon is gonna support US federal accessibility guidelines (like color contrast etc.) now? The people who cite “rampant nazis and transphobes” as a resin for wanting ever instance of the #fediverse to defederate from #threads are the same people who piled on and bullied me when I pushed back from a single person making decision of what I can or cannot see. Specially if I want to follow @potus from my mastodon account.  @AlgoCompSynth @potus No bridge required, Threads is interoperable with Mastodon. It's a direct connection, same as between mastodon.social and universeodon.com you're on. But if your operator blocks Threads, it won't work.  @Gargron @potus@threads.net Yeah you love standing in front of fascists don't you? Never met a genocider you didn't like did you? When this experiment has faded because of your thirsty need to be at the big table, let's just hope there is something better rather than you just being The next in a long line of sellouts  @Gargron I didn't think you would be groveling to world leaders this soon, lol, you're a true mercenary @Gargron I must be doing something wrong. I don't see a way to follow the account. I tried searching for https://www.threads.net/@potus but the account isn't found.  @Gargron For those that are unaware; This seems like a no-brainer. Fediverse for the White House. Who is with me! Ahhhhhhh!!!!! 🏴☠️ 🐻 |
@Gargron I agree that the White House should host their own Fediverse server.