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Given the tiny user base compared to Threads: No.

True.

In my opinion though, the majority of these are just Instagram accounts - that originally signed up for an image sharing social network. While a lot of them are going to try Threads, a lot of them are likely to just lurk.

They're "wasting time" developing ActivityPub support when they could just as well deploy a Mastodon Docker image on an inconspicuous domain name.

And be on the hook for releasing the source code a la Truth Social?

To me this sounds like a whataboutism IMO. You don't need much to create an ActivityPub data ingest program - you quite literally ask the server to always send you updates. Facebook has probably already got something like this set up on Mastodon anyway, and used the NDA'd instance owner meetings to keep it whitelisted.

Maybe all Fediverse instances should block every single Chrome and Edge user. Also every instance hosted on AWS should be blocked. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are every bit as stalkery if not more.

Just because online tracking is normalised does not mean you should just accept it IMO. Although looking at your response, I'm assuming you just don't care about it 🤷‍♂️ which is fine if that works for you.

Facebook is literally doing everything they can to stay intrusive and relevant, even if those things are kinda shitty, while just giving everyone "we care about your privacy" lip service and empty "we're sorry" apologies in Congress.

My issues with FB specifically:

• Access to your contacts via WhatsApp, and their real names if they're saved as such
• Run social experiments on users without prior consent, such as filling feeds with negative content
• Swallowed the low end VR market with the affordable Oculus headset, having a negative effect on VR game quality for users with high end headsets (see "Onward"). The community has coined the term Questification for this
• Cambridge Analytica 🙄
• Copying Snapchat's stories and ephemeral image messages into both Instagram and WhatsApp after Snap Inc turned down their purchase offer
• So many data breaches & leaks that people have stopped caring

There's a bunch more but you probably are already aware of them. It boils down to Facebook not being a company that I believe is worth trusting.

Google is the closest analog to FB, but they're not running social experiments on you without your consent (unless you want to speculate on YouTube's algorithm), and they've kept user data safe. Don't get me wrong, I do not like Google either.

Amazon's antics are mainly confined to online retail, same goes for their ads service if that still exists.

Microsoft is very, very easily avoided, with the obvious exception of work environments. They're kind of irrelevant as a company outside of Azure cloud, Xbox and Windows computers. There's ADO but that feeds back into the work environment thing.

If you are interested in continuing the conversation, I'm curious as to what your opinion of Facebook is? I don't really have any other response so just interested in hearing your perspective.