The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@davidrevoy Definitely not an easy discussion. Meta as a company deserves all the criticism, and I do not trust them at all.
But … we always advocate for free and open services and protocols. Now that we get them, we say "no, not like that!" This is what we wanted, this is how we get users to interact with the fediverse, how we show them how easy it is to use privacy respecting services, this is how we get them to switch.
Instead we build walls, exclude them, make it difficult and unappealing.
Who's "we"? I'm not interested in having anyone here who didn't actively decide to come here.
If someone decides to leave here to follow celebrity gossip or specific brand marketing pap on Threads, more power to them.
I've already blocked threads.net, and will likely move to an instance that does the same going forward.