• Majestikmk@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It’s not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.

    • Tot@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add “archive”

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        13 days ago

        Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don’t autosub people to the new different account.

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        13 days ago

        Important context, yes.

        But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.

        So its not as clean here as it seems.

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      13 days ago

      Gosh, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call a privacy nightmare terrible… /s

      Zuck can eat a bag of dicks. Cancel your account. Stop enabling this rich loser.

    • Weslee@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      If you read the article, there is no auto follow, it’s generic accounts that are used by the current official.

      Eg the POTUS account had Bidens image and name, now it has trump’s