President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse (theverge.com) 24
President Joe Biden has become the first sitting U.S. president to post on a decentralized networking protocol. As reported by The Verge, President Biden's Threads account "has begun using Meta's ActivityPub integration," which allows for content, data, and followers to be ported between networks -- the basis that makes up the "fediverse." From the report: The account turning on fediverse posting comes only a couple of weeks after Threads rolled out its beta ActivityPub integration for users in the US, Canada, and Japan. Biden may not be able to see replies and follows as they pour in from the fediverse -- and with some servers blocking connections to Meta, not everyone there will be able to see his posts -- as those features weren't part of Threads' integration when it opened up beta testing last month. But his posts are available, and he'll see likes coming in from there. Or whoever is running the Presidential Threads account will, anyway.
President Biden isn't posting anywhere... (Score:2, Informative)
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Dude has been on vacation more than 365 days so far - a new record for sure.
Unless we count the Edith Wilson affair.
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https://cbsaustin.com/news/nat... [cbsaustin.com]
In contrast, The Washington Post, which used White House pool reports, reports that Biden spent 256 days on vacation or at one of his homes in Delaware through May 22, 2023.
For context, Biden took office 958 days ago.
Former President Donald Trump spent a little over a quarter of his presidency, around 380 of his 1,461 days in office on personal trips.
Trump's time out of office earned a of media attention because he spent most of his time away, around 250 days, at properties
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LOL, remember Trump? Blamed all the past presidents for playing too much golf. Then Trump himself spent way too much time on the links. Trump played 308 times on the links in 4 years; Obama played 333 times in 8 years. This makes Trump the hypocrite. But we all _know_ he's a hypocrite, even his fans know this, they just cover their ears and eyes when the facts pop up.
Trump shows far more signs of senility than Biden does; it's just that Faux News blasts out stories of Biden goofing up while usually bein
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Ha, that claim is so false. Biden goes home many weekends to his home in Delaware. And that "report" claims every Saturday/Sunday he spends at home is a "vacation". The entire "report" was created to make it look like he was worse than Trump, who was actually golfing alll week long while he should have been doing his job.
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Trump still has enough power to grant himself a golf championship on his own courses. Ignore all the videos of him obviously cheating, I'm certain he won all those awards fair and square. Never mind the photos of him pooping his pants on the course, only look at the doctored ones of himself looking thinner than he was 25 years ago.
A cheater, a liar, a narcissist. What redeeming qualities does he have that would raise him above even the lackluster and mediocre Biden? For the evangelicals out there, Biden
Re:President Biden isn't posting anywhere... (Score:4, Insightful)
Exactly. The man can barely walk. His handlers ought to be charged with elder abuse.
Yes, barely walk. Unlike that makeup wearing con artist who said a ramp on a bright, dry, sunny day was slippery and there wasn't a handrail to hold onto which is why he looked like an arthritic clown creeping down said ramp. Which of course had nothing to do with the lifts in his shoes which is why he always looks like he's about to fall over [twitter.com] while standing still.
Hans Kristian Graebener = StoneToss
I wish you wouldn't do that (Score:2)
Hans Kristian Graebener = StoneToss
I wish you wouldn't dox people like that.
He writes a comic, it's funny, and he pokes fun at your team. Lighten up, allow other people to say things, and respond.
The only purpose for doing it is to cause him suffering.
For any people here with a background in philosophy, this meets the definition of evil: doing something to someone else that, if it were done to you, would cause you suffering.
Just stop. Instead of suffering, try causing more good in the world.
Why I (reluctantly) support him over Trump (Score:4, Insightful)
He may not be completely swapped in, but he has staffers who are aware of what's going on in things like decentralized social media, and are trying to keep up.
As a bonus, thhose staffers are not overtly planning to keep him in office past January 2029.
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It's his Press Secretary.
She often makes a mistaken post under her account and then deletes it and puts it under his account.
He said yesterday he has no idea about social media posts (and blamed Republicans for what his account said).
So, yeah, this article is disingenuous .
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Whereas with Trump you know the posts at 3am are from him, because no other human can write gibberish the way a senile Trump can.
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Someone is posting, but it isn't him.
Whoever it is at least understands how to use the Shift/Caps-Lock keys appropriately, unlike that other guy. :-)
Biden wouldn't know how! (Score:1)
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Usenet (Score:2)
Wasn't Usenet fairly decentralized?
He doesn't even know... (Score:1)
I prefer (Score:3)
Watching AI Biden debate AI Trump. https://www.twitch.tv/trumporb... [twitch.tv]
Fuck A Fediverse. (Score:1)
Nazi control freaks.
That would have been great (Score:2)
if he hadn't posted in the Fediverse through fucking Facebook. I would have been more impressed if he had done it directly on Mastodon or Lemmy.
This is sending all the wrong messages. Thanks whoever-runs-Biden's-internet-PR :(