Joe Biden's official account is now connected to the Fediverse, thanks to Threads. We'll see if anything comes of it.

Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I’m surprised the white house doesn’t just host a mastodon server. I’m sure they consider using unvetted software to communicate to be a security risk, but it’s no less a risk to put your communication channels in the hands of a third party.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’d actually love to see something like this happen, as it seems to be something European governments and officials are embracing. To have something similar for the United States would be incredible.

      I think at the moment, there’s a real need for advocates, consultants, and vendors that can actually cater to government entities here. I would imagine there’s probably some crazy data requirements needed for US Government Officials.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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        8 months ago

        I’d actually love to see something like this happen, as it seems to be something European governments and officials are embracing.

        I had the chance to ask the responsible person of the EU commission about this at the last CCC congress and sadly he was much less optimistic. The answer basically boilded down to: as long as someone else funds and maintains it they are willing to put an intern or similar at work to post updates, but currently all these efforts are time limited and when funding for the 3rd party to operate them runs out, these efforts are likely to die off quickly. The actual buy in and willingness to operate their own social media infrastructure seems to be very low.