Gargron sez: "The fact that you can follow [the Threads account of] the president of the United States from your Mastodon account… is a huge W in my book."
Correction: The Biden account signals the failure of the fediverse, at least from the perspective of those who dreamed of a decentralized, noncommercial, community-owned social network that would replace the capitalist data mines and see mass adoption by public figures, journalists and government agencies.
That dream is dead. Instead, those figures and agencies will just sign up to another centralized proprietary Zuckerberg platform, and maybe check a box in their account settings for a bit of extra - and vaguely comprehended - syndication reach
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