Biden announced he's ending his bid for the presidency via X (formerly twitter).
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An aside, I hate that this was posted to twitter before it was posted to Biden's own website or the White House's website first.
This is why the internet sucks now. Nobody maintains their own websites anymore. These days everybody just posts everything on the same handful of centralized megacorp websites. Social media killed the golden age of the web.
There are some exceptions that still live by the POSSE*-principle, but they're rare.
*Post to Own Site, Syndicate/Share Everywhere
Ey yo at least this place exists
This is essentially a very fancy forum. I wouldn't expect corporations or politicians to be posting here. Maybe they could host their own instance and federate. In principle, that would mean they're paying for their own hosting and have control over their message being altered.
How about Mastodon?
Post to your own website first, then to social media. Hosting your own Mastodon or Lemmy instance counts as your own website.
E-mail, too. You could have all the latest security features to confirm you're legitimate, but based on the simple fact that your message volume is low (ironically enough), messages you send with your server will often get filed under junk by default.
Well Trump posts stuff to his own website :P
But yeah, I agree. And there's no excuse for it really. Sure a regular person only posting to a single social media makes sense, but anyone that has staff should be able post to their own website, issue a press release, post on Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook, Blue Sky, Reddit, etc. I mean once you have the statement finalized it's just copy & paste to get it on all platforms. It seems bizarre that they don't do this.
Screw Elon
My first reaction was that he was hacked. It wasn't on official letterhead, there was no other announcement, and the president didn't immediately make another tweet/x/whatever.
I don't think I'm alone. Typically when something big like this happens, I get 5-10 news alerts within minutes of each other from various sources. The alerts were slow to roll in today.
"Oh shit, how do we spin this in Trumps favour"
I mean, it took me 12+ hours to hear that Trump had been shot.
Yeah but you aren’t a news junkie who enables notifications from a bunch of news outlets, I take it?
Is it reading the news or posting it that drives you?
Considering I’ve had the same notifications enabled for over a decade and only started posting here to try and make it active like Reddit… the news?
I hate that he started at least 2 sentences with "and"
It really helps you to hear it in his voice, though.
Elon probably boosted it for free, max.publicity