mrmanager , 1 year ago

You don’t give much thought to what Threads wants to do to the fediverse, and your concern is only what benefits yourself in the short term.

Just be aware of that. Many of us older folks have seen this process happen over and over. Threads will start to dictate what activitypub will be, and once it has many millions of users, it gives them power to influence the entire protocol.

And if people don’t like that, they will have to come up with a new protocol and start over again. Which is exactly the cycle we are constantly experiencing.

I think we should not let them into our instances. Keep them as a corporate funded version of the fediverse, separate from the ones run by individuals.

But since each instance owner is free to do what they want, I estimate that many will federate with threads and suffer the consequences in the future.