I am for blocking Threads. You mentioned history, and history shows that nothing good comes of playing ball with Zuckerberg. We are not a commodity to be used by billionaires, and I feel that the Fediverse exists to at least partially prevent that.

And as for public info, we can't stop people from scraping the data in other ways, but we also don't need to directly facilitate it by federating. Why make it easier for Zuck to get access to the data?

Lastly, no matter what he says, Zuck can't be trusted. I'm almost certain the entire reason he wants to use ActivityPub in the first place is to either gain access to the kinds of people who have left Facebook and Twitter and commodify them, or to somehow maneuver in such a way that it kills or cripples the Fediverse.

Either way, it's a no from me. Fuck Zuck.

Threads will use the content generated here for money without paying a cent.

I do not want to be a donating free labor source for a billionaire. They will take our work and lock it behind a login. Why would we want that ?

Do not federate.

I'm in favour of upholding our open nature. Federate with threads.

I am absolutely not in favor of federating with threads, beyond the EEE scares and corporate abuse they also have a huge problem with moderating properly and have large amounts of trolls and transphobic content. Facebook has a very bad track record in general with moderation and has allowed this type of content to thrive on their other platforms in the past, threads doesn't seem to be an exception.

just leave it status quo like this is better. Let's see where it goes

The fediverse is a public forum. Everything you post and interact with is public, and every large digital ads company has been scraping public forums for about as long as digital advertisers have been scraping the web for anything. By defederating you aren't keeping anything secret from Meta, you're just siloing yourself off from interactions with their userbase (for better or for worse).

I think the decision whether or not to federate really comes down to user experience. Is the instance full of trolls who just harass and annoy? Block the heck out of 'em. But if it grows the fediverse and allows for more interaction, honestly I'm down for it. I hate Meta/Facebook for their terribe UI, poor moderation and data hoovering behavior. By interacting with Meta via the fediverse the only data they're getting is the exact same data they probably already scrape, but I can actually interact with normal people on sane terms

The Threads privacy policy for third party servers (quoted below) is extremely sparse, only collecting the exact same data any federated server would collect through federation

Information From Third Party Services and Users: We collect information about the Third Party Services and Third Party Users who interact with Threads. If you interact with Threads through a Third Party Service (such as by following Threads users, interacting with Threads content, or by allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content), we collect information about your third-party account and profile (such as your username, profile picture, and the name and IP address of the Third Party Service on which you are registered), your content (such as when you allow Threads users to follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in your posts), and your interactions (such as when you follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in Threads posts).