People criticizing Elon for banning links to Threads profiles while praising admins for defederating from Threads are hypocrites.
That's right, I don't see anything wrong with federating with Threads, at least for now. I believe doing so can help the fediverse go mainstream. Meta can't access personal data in other instances by design anyway.
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There's a difference between allowing speech about a thing and embracing the thing. This is a classic case of embrace, extend, extinguish.
If you're interested, I'd look into what happened with XMPP and Google talk. XMPP was a federated chat service. Google Talk became compatible with it, and instantly became the most popular client for it.
It then broke compatibility slowly, pushing more people from other XMPP clients onto Google talk.
They finally removed it completely, and because they were the most popular client, XMPP users moved to Google talk to maintain their connections to other users. The protocol basically ceased to exist.
People are broadly assuming that's Meta's plan with threads and Mastodon, because it's an extremely common way for corporations to get rid of open systems.