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Best part of it is - it's all paranoia. Fediverse will never get a sensible percentage of people if everything new gets blocked for no reason, or "because they'll destroy Fediverse".
If Fediverse will reach a "sensible amounts of people" by sacrificing all of its goals (no ads, no data harvesting), what's the point of it? You can already register an acc on threads and enjoy full Meta experience.
Meta isn't 'everything new'. It's 'just' an awful company with unethical business model.
Seems more like you dismiss any reasoning against federation as 'it’s all paranoia'.
Yeah, because it is all "slippery slope" and paranoia. So what that they federate? How are they going to force developers to implement ads? How will they force their unethical business model on you?
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249
Zuck has been refining his unethical business model for decades, they aren't joining activitypub to be a team player.
Is there a way to technically deliver an unbroken user experience to a thread user without privacy issues?
Not really that I can think of, which is why I don't think anyone should federate with them. I agree it's instance operator and users choice but I feel like the default shouldn't be "sign your privacy away, block them if you want to have privacy again (which you likely already lost some of from being federated with them)"