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I must genuinely ask? What does this accomplish, a lot of instances being split apart because one federates with meta and the other doesnt, its not like the meta posts are gonna make it to your instance if you defederate meta, so you are really just splitting the community over nothing. Privacy wise, activity pub is public, by design, so they can just already pull all the information it exposes, and likely do. And finally? How does this stop EEE?
It stops the extension, and puts pressure on other instances. They now need to choose between federation with Meta or the rest of the fediverse. It also adds pressure to activity pub devs to not accept merge requests from Meta. Meta's strategy is likely to create some deliberately created merge requests that’ll break fediverse but Threads will have the right back end to handle those requests properly. Suddenly you’ll have “threads has this cool feature and mastodon is constantly struggling with errors, go to threads!” articles.