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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:24:31 JST Anil Dash

   This is a milestone for the open web. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

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     Shannon Clark (rycaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 07:53:46 JST Shannon Clark

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     @anildash also the @whitehouse official account.

     And I hope this is the start of many more such accounts to come as welll as organizations considering their own official instances not just via Threads (so they can have true two way discourse) and more of a range of accounts - but if just every official federal (and hopefully state and local) government official accounts use threads to join the larger fediverse that’s a win)

     Is it perfection no. But it is a win.

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     Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:17:53 JST Tim Chambers

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     • stevenray
     • Shannon Clark

     @Rycaut @stevenray @anildash @whitehouse This is correct: they see aggregate responses from other servers, but no replies. Soon full federation.

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     Shannon Clark (rycaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:17:54 JST Shannon Clark

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     • stevenray

     @stevenray @anildash @whitehouse @tchambers I haven’t tested it but my understanding is that Threads users see some aggregated stats about Fediverse activity but I don’t think can see specific replies or boosts (they can see how many different servers interacted with a post but I don’t think they can see the replies.

     However I hope this changes (and that threads users can follow fediverse accounts etc) but I have no unique knowledge if/when that will happen.

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     stevenray (stevenray@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:17:55 JST stevenray

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Shannon Clark

     @Rycaut @anildash @whitehouse @tchambers can Threads accounts see comments from Mastodon yet, or is this mostly a one-way communication still?

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     Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:42:09 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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     @anildash I don’t want to interact with threads. I don’t do Zuckerberg. So I see this as a failure of the Whitehouse: they should be running their own instance in ‘proper’ Mastodon, not weaseling ing via a commercial back door.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 08:42:09 JST Anil Dash

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     • Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

     @KimSJ are you going to run a fed-certified secure mastodon hosting service?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 09:56:45 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @anildash yes, it's definitely a good signal that the Fediverse is the way to go.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:55:26 JST Anil Dash

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     • Magical Cat

     @koteisaev I think that’ll come in time

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     Magical Cat (koteisaev@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:55:27 JST Magical Cat

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     @anildash Still, I would prefer it would be something like `potus@fediverse.gov` or potus@social.whitehouse.gov` instead. To further decouple it from corporate infrastructure.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:55:49 JST Anil Dash

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     • keith kurson

     @keith indeed.

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     keith kurson (keith@cute.is)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:55:50 JST keith kurson

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     @anildash the replies 😭

     Very exciting to see this, and I hope its a little test of the waters before someone creates a fedramp compatible version of Mastodon 😰

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     Winter Trabex (trabex@newsie.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:57:01 JST Winter Trabex

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     @anildash

     Infuriating. Why did he choose threads? Does he not have any understanding of how social media works, at all?

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:57:01 JST Anil Dash

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     • Winter Trabex

     @trabex it’s a first step.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:57:53 JST Anil Dash

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     • Artemesia

     @artemesia I think you actually know exactly the point I’m making

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     Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:57:54 JST Artemesia

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     @anildash

     "a milestone for the open web"

     You think threads.net is the open web? FFS the president can and does have press releases typed up and posted to a government web server that anyone can read and link to. That's posting to the open web.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:58:17 JST Anil Dash

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     • StaringAtClouds has moved

     @staringatclouds yep!

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     StaringAtClouds has moved (staringatclouds@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 10:58:18 JST StaringAtClouds has moved

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     @anildash We just need him to migrate off threads

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     Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 13:05:52 JST Artemesia

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     @anildash

     No, I don't, and I don't regard walled gardens as any kind of open web. Do you?

     The president's threads posts being copied to the fediverse is just effectively an RSS feed. You want a real milestone for the fediverse? How about the white house sets up their own mastodon instance, accounts available only to white house staff, like the BBC did.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 13:05:52 JST Anil Dash

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     • Artemesia

     @artemesia I expect they will.

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     Matthew (mrblissett@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:16:18 JST Matthew

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     • Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

     @anildash @KimSJ
     The White House could host its own

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:16:18 JST Anil Dash

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     • Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

     @mrblissett @KimSJ I bet they will eventually, as soon as a vendor who can run one exists.

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     Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:16:42 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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     • Matthew

     @mrblissett @anildash And you trust Threads to be secure, Anil?

     Clearly, the Whitehouse should host its own server

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:16:42 JST Anil Dash

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     • Matthew
     • Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

     @KimSJ @mrblissett yeah Facebook isn’t that bad at that kind of security.

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     roland (roland@f.haeder.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:41:18 JST roland

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     • admin

     @admin @anildash I have seen that they have named the account potus and not president_joe_biden. Is there a particular reason for this?

     EDIT: Rephrased whole question.

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     admin (admin@friendlica.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 22:41:24 JST admin

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     @anildash Will it also be a milestone when the next potus posts into the fediverse?