There are basically two irreconcilable camps in the Threads debate here.
- Camp 1, understandably, wants nothing to do with Meta and view them as an existential threat to the Fediverse for plenty of well-precedented reasons.
- Camp 2, also understandably, sees potential in connecting a managed platform that appeals to entities like news outlets and other services to the Fediverse, enabling us to access that information without requiring an account on a Meta-owned platform.
Camp 1 will not cede ground because they view the issue as existential.
Camp 2 will, I dunno, deal with it or move to a server where they can see what they want to see?
But given the scale of Threads already, widespread blocking of it will create a pretty noticeably weird gap in the federation graph, and make onboarding for new potential Fedi users even more confusing. That part, by itself, kinda sucks.
Taggart :donor: /
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