Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.

This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).

Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.

So thanks for that, Eugen.

(Yes, I’m livid.)

@aral I'm still undecided about Threads, while I appreciate concerns about the embrace-extend-extinguish model. One of the big drawbacks I'm worried about is the extra computing power that may be needed to do all this. How will that affect instances' costs, and the planet?