You can follow Joe Biden on Mastodon at @potus.

But even though Kamala Harris both has a personal account on threads and a VP account, none of them have federation turned on, so they are not visible to Mastodon users.

If you know somebody who knows somebody in the administration, please tell them.

@randahl @potus It’s a ridiculous implementation of activity pub that means only a very small percentage of Threads users will be discoverable in the fediverse.

@anderspuck @randahl @potus Huh‽ @threads made #ActivityPub opt-in for legal reasons. @wordpressdotcom did the same thing. Both are massive, for-profit corporations who are under a lot of scrutiny.

Turning on #Fediverse sharing as a default option would open #Meta to not only potential personal lawsuits, but more wrath from the @EUCommission (which they are trying to avoid right now).

@darnell @anderspuck @randahl it does really suck that these laws are getting in the way of open communication.

However, if there's a company that has the funds to make it known that they shouldn't have a legal obligation once the switch is flipped, it's Meta.

There's no benefit for them to do that though. They have shareholders they're beholden to and doing anything regarding Fediverse doesn't directly make them money and fighting laws like this, loses them money.

@BeAware @anderspuck @randahl Large corporations (anything above 1,000 full time employees) have to be careful when it comes to exposing consumer info, as they can be fined thousands, millions or even billions of dollars.

I currently work for a large company, & it is frustrating how simple, great ideas are killed or delayed by the legal department.

@darnell @anderspuck @randahl yeah, makes sense. In this case though, there's no private info that can be leaked via AP unless they specifically build ways to leak it.

Everything that a user publicly posts, would be publicly federated. It's a simple point of consent.

If they'd write into they're "totally legally binding TOS" that anyone that signs up, is agreeing to these things, they should be in the clear, just like they seem to get away with everything else they put in there.