Fediverse

Right? You don't have to join or even engage with Threads if you don't want to. Super easy to block an instance. But this brings a massive userbase and serious support to Mastodon. I'm a huge FOSS supporter and this is how the Fediverse not only survives, but thrives and grows - buy in from big players. Otherwise, when X/Twitter inevitably dies, another proprietary app takes its place. We just have to hold them accountable and educate users that there are Fedi apps outside Threads.

Agreed. The entire point of this federation and it is being essentially burned because someone wants to join.

I’ll use a very loose and likely wrong political analogy.

If a right wing group says the left wing are not inclusive and blocking certain people from joining. The left wing denies this and says anyone can join. So a right wing member tries to join and the left wing says “sorry not you”.

Let threads join. Don’t subscribe to any of their communities. Simple.