this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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i'll join the voices saying this is bad for the fediverse, and bad for users in general. there are LOTS of normie users who are joining threads who will be shut off from learning about all the cool other servers if everyone blocks them. this will mean users who want to interact with them need to sign up on Threads, which is what we don't want.
what we want is that users on Threads see other servers, learn that they're better, and migrate over.
don't block Threads, show them how much better we are.
You're missing the bigger picture. If threads is federating with the fediverse, then that means Zuck is downloading and indexing a copy of everyone else's posts OUTSIDE of threads.
Like data brokers couldn't do that anyway.
This. I'm sure it's already happening. People training LLMs are already pointing their models towards ActivityPub.
"People can scrape your website, therefore you should just submit and allow your server to freely hand all your user's posts over to meta upon request" is quite the take.