I am for blocking Threads. You mentioned history, and history shows that nothing good comes of playing ball with Zuckerberg. We are not a commodity to be used by billionaires, and I feel that the Fediverse exists to at least partially prevent that.
And as for public info, we can’t stop people from scraping the data in other ways, but we also don’t need to directly facilitate it by federating. Why make it easier for Zuck to get access to the data?
Lastly, no matter what he says, Zuck can’t be trusted. I’m almost certain the entire reason he wants to use ActivityPub in the first place is to either gain access to the kinds of people who have left Facebook and Twitter and commodify them, or to somehow maneuver in such a way that it kills or cripples the Fediverse.
Either way, it’s a no from me. Fuck Zuck.
to somehow maneuver in such a way that it kills or cripples the Fediverse.
With similar companies having Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategies, I’m hesitant to let malicious actors like Meta have free reign. I don’t care about if some instances have (clearly labeled) ads or charge subscriptions. And as long as apps make it clear you are talking to the void, the choice of theirs to not federate in the other direction is not a big deal if there is a way for a user to block instances.
To add to this, Zuck is currently the most followed person on the Fediverse:
Source: https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts?page=1
