What’s with all the hate about federating with Threads? I thought people would be happy to hear a big player is coming to the fediverse that’s going to bring a bunch of people with it.

It's because corporations will embrace, extend, and extinguish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Allowing corporations to have any level of control will result in this place dying.

[–] Johem@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even have to be extinguishing. It's bad enough if meta can reap the benefits of associating with FOSS (better privacy for example), while making their app the gateway to the fediverse. And of course that app will be spyware with social media on top. It's like greenwashing.