Not really because all those big web companies already have crawlers already anyway. It's literally more work for them to support open standards than it is not.

Plus they already have 100 million Threads users. They don't care about the 2mil Mastodon users.

The real concern is that federating with Threads might create network effects that pull Fediverse users more and more into just using Threads

"I can't follow all the cool entertainment accounts from here, so I follow them on Threads instead." <-- more likely.

Another concern I’ve seen mentioned is, a lot of instances have rules against advertising.

Threads cannot make other instances run ads.

And finally, Facebook is just a garbage corporation.

Facebook is one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap and makes lots of open source software. I can say with 100% confidence that you've used software by Facebook even if you never ever visited any Facebook/Meta service. Just because parts of a big corp suck bad, doesn't mean that everything they make sucks.

I find it so hilarious that so many freak out about stupid Facebook, yet fucking Truth Social by Trump (which is literally a Mastodon instance full of neo-nazis) is barely blocked by anyone.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook is one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap and makes lots of open source software.

I'd like to know more about this.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’d like to know more about this.

https://github.com/facebook (which includes the zsdt compression algorithm and the React web framework)
https://stamen.com/launching-the-facebook-map-8d028c4f0e0e/
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Meta
https://github.com/facebook/RapiD
https://rapideditor.org/

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Threads cannot make other instances run ads.

I stopped here because you just showed how little you know about the situation. What's to stop them posting paid advertisements as posts on their platform, boosted by millions of their users engagement, to the top of feeds in the fediverse? Oh, it's defederation.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped here because you just showed how little you know about the situation.

Well, unlike you I've actually read the announcement by the LW admins about Threads.

What’s to stop them posting paid advertisements as posts on their platform, boosted by millions of their users engagement, to the top of feeds in the fediverse?

Simply not following accounts you don't like, duh.

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on lemmy, I don't follow any accounts. Good job showing how limited your knowledge of the fediverse is and confirming you're as dumb as I thought in one fell swoop.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

you’re as dumb as I thought

You just confirmed that you ran out of arguments and realized that, then decided to go on the offense. Too bad you broke the Code of Conduct. Perhaps go back to Twitter where such behavior is encouraged.