Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.

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    11 months ago

    I’m worried that what they’ll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can’t dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

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        11 months ago

        Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

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          11 months ago

          Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business.

          Yeah agreed. They’re building a multi-million dollar social network - why spend all that money up front when they could have just installed small anonymous Pleroma on Raspberry Pi for under 100 bucks if they’d wanted to mine our data.

          I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

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            11 months ago

            I don’t think fedi is their “target”.

            I don’t think scraping posts is their “target”

            FTFY