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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
I know no one asked me, but here's my opinion anyway:
I said at the time that the best approach to federating with Threads was to follow your established policies. For most of the fediverse, that means to federate by default, and defederate if that becomes a problem. I stand by this.
I don't actually know what reason Meta had for federating. I doubt they do either. But the story they can tell is that it makes them more open and interoperable. It makes them one (large) provider among many within a market. Which means they're not an illegal monopoly, or whatever.
And if they try to federate and everyone else refuses to even consider it? Then the story they can tell is that nobody wants that. There is no market. And so they're just a normal website with a lot of users.
But if they try to federate, and the market is receptive, but then rejects them as unsafe? That's different. That's now a story that we can tell. And that story practically begs for stricter regulation, at least.