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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:43:04 JST Eugen Rochko

   The 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.

   • Alexander (hanseat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:49:22 JST Alexander

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     @Gargron ich weiß threads ist für viele hier das personifizierte böse aber ich fands schon ziemlich cool dass ich jetzt dem account des amerikanischen präsidenten auf mastodon folgen kann
     nice

   • Simon Harper (simonharper@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:54:05 JST Simon Harper

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     @Gargron @potus this is great. Can I follow any threads user now in @ivory on my instance?

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:56:50 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:
     • Simon Harper

     @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.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:57:55 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Danny Colin

     @dannycolin Absolutely.

   • Danny Colin (dannycolin@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 02:57:56 JST Danny Colin

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     @Gargron Unless Threads server is blocked on the instance you're on. I get people not wanting to federate with Threads server-wide but users should be able to follow whoever they want on their personal timeline especially gov accounts...

   • Simon Harper (simonharper@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:06:21 JST Simon Harper

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     @Gargron @potus @ivory ahh… nice. And thank you for the speedy reply 🙏🏼

   • Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv (lisawarnerlisaluv@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:12:53 JST Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv

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     @Gargron @potus

     🤗*THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!*I WISH YOU AN AWESOME DAY!🤗

   • niamotullah (niamotullah@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:23:43 JST niamotullah

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     @Gargron @potus how to block instances like Threads on Mastodon?

   • Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:58:51 JST Artemesia

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     • Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)

     @Twitter_expat @Gargron @potus

     ...except he is not on the fediverse. He's on threads.net, which is a walled garden you can't interact with, and the content the president's PR flacks will post there is hardly unique. I mean, I could set up a script that reposts the whitehiuse.gov RSS feed to mastodon with a #potus tag. Would that mean the president is "on" mastodon?

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:58:51 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)
     • Artemesia

     @artemesia @Twitter_expat @potus Threads is part of the fediverse.

   • Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident) (twitter_expat@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 03:58:52 JST Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)

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     @Gargron @potus

     Potus on #fediverse is the best fediverse news of 2024 so far. Now let's make some dark Brandon emojis please.

   • xs4me2 (xs4me2@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 04:09:41 JST xs4me2

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     @Gargron @potus

     Exactly and it is great to see this happen!

   • Les Blazemore (lesblazemore@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 04:14:56 JST Les Blazemore

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     @Gargron @potus Yeah I think over some time he will be here.

     So, it's nice and it's a win, but i'd like to see them *on* Mastodon

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 04:28:04 JST Eugen Rochko

     • CassandraZeroCovid

     @CassandraZeroCovid @potus No.

   • shahidshahidkhan (shahidshahidkhan@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 06:25:16 JST shahidshahidkhan

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     @Gargron @potus

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 06:32:56 JST Urzl

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     @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.

   • William Vambenepe (vambenepe@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 06:54:39 JST William Vambenepe

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     @Gargron @potus Agreed (that it's nice and also that a gov instance would be even better).

     Another (minor) benefit of a gov Mastodon instance is that the POTUS account there could have a join date that's not April 1st...

   • Alex, just zis guy, you know? (alexmorse@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 07:03:44 JST Alex, just zis guy, you know?

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     @Gargron @potus 1000% no government or movement should be beholden to a corporation

   • Don Pedro (donpedr0@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 09:31:44 JST Don Pedro

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     @Gargron @potus hi

   • Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦 (grant_m@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 10:05:21 JST Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦

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     @Gargron @potus 100%! Thank you so much for Mastodon!

   • Flexghost. (flexghost@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 10:51:05 JST Flexghost.

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     @Gargron @potus not only should the White House have its own Instance but they should have handcrafted emojis of all of the presidents… Made in MURICA

     Ronald Reagan wearing sunglasses with the quote “well”

     Andy Card whispering to Dubya

     Clinton sitting at a desk with a huge smile

     🇺🇸

   • Damon C. Jones (damoncjones@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 11:24:37 JST Damon C. Jones

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     @Gargron @potus no shit. I blocked Threads and as a result can't follow Biden. Sticking to my principles.

   • Bebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴 (bebef@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 17:40:23 JST Bebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴

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     @Gargron @potus Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a "W" in tbat particular context?

   • Expertenkommision Cyberunfall (expertenkommision_cyberunfall@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 17:55:35 JST Expertenkommision Cyberunfall

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     @Gargron

   • niamotullah (niamotullah@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:36:47 JST niamotullah

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     @Gargron @potus i think every mastodon should block Meta related every instance for privacy concerns. Or at least give an option to block such domains easily