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As you've probably heard, Threads (a fairly new social network from Facebook's parent company Meta) is testing integration with the fediverse. Depending on how you look at it, it's a great opportunity, a huge threat, or both!
Back in May and June, when Threads' first announced their plans, there were quite a few polls on Mastodon about people's reactions, most showing opinions split roughly equally. How do people feel today?
Was no and still no. BTW, here's me viewing a Threads profile from mastodon.world on Moshidon
It can be both a "good" opportunity and bad but given the way Meta had to change its name to Meta after getting into trouble with running its platform to encourage fascism in national election outcomes ... I think it's safe to say the good that could possibly come of the federation does not outweigh the probable bad. I don't agree with anything Zuckerfuck touches being anything close to reasonable to work with. Meta/Facebook's track record isn't something to ignore.
the whole point of federation is networks being able to connect to each other. it will hopefully be a matter of course in the future.
People are scared because they don't know what will happen. It's basically conservatism at play and "the others" getting into a platform. Reality is - nothing of substance will happen, other than more users being able to communicate.