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1) There are Instagram accounts posting content today that would prompt many Mastodon admins to defederate immediately.
2) Those accounts are not being moderated by Instagram. User reports are closed without action. So their Threads version of those accounts will likely also not be moderated.
3) So many Mastodon admins will defederate from Threads shortly after federation.
So I'm not sure why folks are spending so much time debating whether defederating before the inevitable harm is bad?
I'm not talking about any hypothetical "embrace and extend" fears that may or may not happen in the future. I'm also not talking about deeply nuanced or complex moderation decisions.
I'm talking about basic, moderation 101 decisions that would happen today. Like, the simplest Fediverse moderation case: "How do we feel about transphobic hate posts and calls for hate-based pile-ons?"
An instance that allows this would be defederated by most admins.
@mekkaokereke This, exactly!
And we shouldn't cut million dollar-heavy corporations some slack because they shoehorned a Twitter clone onto their Instragram thing and had the oh-so-generous idea to make it compatible to ActivityPub.
Quite the opposite: Theyy should use those shedloads of money to hire proper moderators, give them the necessary training and oversight, and make sure that Threads doesn't just integrate with the Fediverse on the protocol layer, but also on Layer 8.
mekka okereke 
Sparky