Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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      Marketing and content boost for the start maybe? Mastodon has come up a lot recently (hell, even in local radio), so Meta can use this to promote their own product. And already have content right there for users joining Threads, it’s not a blank slate.

      After the initial boost and when sucking up millions of users they can just defederate and have their Facebook (or rather Twitter) 2.0.

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      Probably partly to avoid regulatory scrutiny. They can say they’re not being monopolistic (even though they 100% are) because they’re embracing open standards.

      That’s why they’re not launching in the EU.