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It still blows my mind how this is still a question and not a default "no."
If you're here on Lemmy, odds are you don't like walled gardens, and would rather roam free on the vast open plains.
If Threads federates, Meta's basically giving its users a path out of its walled garden, into the free world.
If we, as the natives of that free world, say "Everybody defederate with Threads," we're just building our own wall around Meta in response to the walled garden opening its gates.
If we want people to roam wild and free in the fediverse, and we don't like walled gardens, how does it make any sense for us to respond to one of the world's walled gardens letting its people out by building our own wall to keep them in?
Meta is not letting people out of it's walled garden. Meta will use our free world as a safari, selling tickets to their users so they can watch and interact with us, monetizing our content, while still being guided (since they can decide what content they see, and how do they see it) and watched by Meta (because they know every move of their users at any other instance) at every step they take outside of it's walls - because they are still from their instance. It will use those safari rides as an excuse to collect as much data about what we do here, unknowing to the people they sent here. In addition to that, you will get 3 billion of people who will just leave trash everywhere they go on our vast open plains, and Meta will eventually just use that as an example of how we can't handle cleaning our space, and use it as a reason why people should go live within their walls - because the walls will still be there, and every step you take within them, even if you're only visiting from outside, will be heavily monitored.
And Meta is doing this because of what? Zuck's kindness?