Meta recently launched Threads in a seemingly rushed state likely aiming to capitalize on Twitter’s recent actions, missing features such as Digital Markets Act compliance and ActivityPub support.
Some communities have decided to preemptively defederate them as soon as that gets implemented under fears of them repeating what google did with XMPP by using “Embrace, Expand until no one else can keep up” tactics, while others have claimed those fears are overblown.
I’m not seeing any issue with the scorched earth approach of defederating on this one. Facebook isn’t a good actor acting on the greater good here. They just seem to be hoping to pick up on Twitters current weakness while they have a nutjob as a CEO. They want market dominance and profits selling user data and ads.