This will be the death knell of any instance that does no defederate/blacklist them.

Yep. If “world” doesn’t defederate from Threads l am going to main another instance

Spookbook is . Everything you say and do on there will be held against you. The company is notorious for fishing expeditions.

Can someone please explain why this matters. Almost all madtadon instances are public and can be data mined by any company. Why is it such a large concern if threads is able to see a portion of the posts on the fediverse like any other mastadon instance. To me the only thing threads federation changes is allowing me to view posts on threads without the amount of MS my cursor is over the podt being data mined to know what food Ill be craving in a week.

There seems to be a general consesnus that feddiverse users don't want anything to do with meta and that instances will defederate with threads. I'm curious if the majority will follow this trend to avoid yet another EEE, or if there will be some exceptions. I bet meta will be open to pay good money to instance admins for "colaboration" if the instance is big enough.

So they'll grab what is needed to federate? The same stuff every instance grabs?

Wouldnt the name of your profile be more specific than your ip address so it doesnt matter if they get your ip address or not?

Also, why would they store the data? They cant show you ads

Like tentacles of a blood sucking octopus...