They can't, because of that pesky thing called monetization and ads.
Even if they did, it wouldn't be what you'd expect. Look at how many Threads users haven't enabled federation support.
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2024-05-25 11:17:02
in reply to nevent1q…wvav
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2024-05-25 11:17:02Event JSON
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