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Would you want to federate with Reddit?
Google hasn’t actively tried to shutdown its competing email providers… Meta has (tried to purchase or shut down its competitors on multiple occasions). Why do you think they aren’t trying to do that this time?
Google (gmail) and Microsoft (hotmail/outlook) are both infamous for anticompetitive behaviour.
I can't know Meta's internal strategy for sure, but I'd speculate that they see Twitter as the primary competitor to Threads by a significant margin.
Fediverse integration, introducing fediverse concepts to a large number of people, seems more likely part of one-upping Twitter rather than an attempt to kill the fediverse.
So if Reddit or Twitter decided to join the fediverse… you would be ok with that?
Social media isn’t something neutral like email, social media companies manipulate their users’ opinions and their feeds for profit. I just don’t believe we should just give away the digital commons again. If Threads was just about killing Twitter, Facebook wouldn’t be adding fediverse functionality to Threads in the first place.
What concerns me is how much information is available to all instance admins.
this comment in particular made me think.
Me, yes. It could make more content available, which is like the main reason why people don't switch.