the summaries of the arguments against didn't sound like what I'm hearing.

On the blocking number, most instances don't block others with one bad actor. There's often a bit if back-and-forth between admins to see where they're at. But with threads, we know it's less moderated than any Mastodon instance except those which are generally defederate. We won't get a response back from a threads admin within a couple of hours, but we will receive some thousands of block-worthy posts.

Although I agree that most instances need to federate, not all should.

Many smaller instances don't want to deal with a sudden influx of new users to federate with. In these cases, they may not have the funding to pay for more resources.

I've also heard of people saying they don't believe Threads is moderated enough and worried about actors. Some groups are targeted more often and a small number of malicious actors on threads could easily outnumber a smaller fully bad instance.

I honestly think we should take advantage of the exposure we'll receive from Threads and make more accessible instances that advertise themselves to more mainstream users.

Just outright blocking Meta or only hoping they "play nice" with us is probably going to end badly. Instead, we should be trying to expand our own foothold.

#Meta #Threads #Fediverse #Mastodon

Thanks for this. So important to have this #fedipact talked about with a sane POV.

@ #fediverse check this out.