As you’ve probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook’s parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it’s a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!
Back in May and June, when Threads’ first announced their plans, there were quite a few polls on Mastodon about people’s reactions, most showing opinions split roughly equally. How do people feel today?
I’d say you may want to consider why this is the case. If you’re OK federating tumblr (which I agree with), but not ok federating threads, even if defederating threads won’t impact Meta at all and only negatively affects thread users - that seems pretty hypocritical and unnecessarily spiteful towards normies.
It’s not normies I’m spiteful toward. It’s MOTHERFUCKING META. The fact that the normies are going and supporting a known abuser with almost two decades’ worth of fucking everything up is a “them” problem, not a “me” problem.
And once again I repeat: Defederating won’t hurt meta. They can likely already harvest all the user data they would get from federation.
So you’re senselessly taking your take against meta out on normies.