The recent excitement surrounding Thread’s arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don’t roll out the red carpet for them.
Feels like a remake of XMPP Jabber federation
Haha, yes. Meta (back then as Facebook) had a Jabber (XMPP) bridge to their messenger. When they noticed that people used OTR for messaging so they could not analyze the data they disabled it again. Was a wild but short time. With Threads it seems to be a bit different, though, because ActivityPub is their first-class transport protocol and not just a bridge.