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Yeah, I don't see much point in federating with anything Facebook comes up with.
However, I suspect the planned AP support by Tumblr will be the bigger question. Solarpunk obviously has been always very strong on Tumblr and the current owners of Tumblr are not nearly as bad as Facebook, but it is still a huge corporate run instance if and when it joins the Fediverse.
I'm glad to hear we won't be federating with threads or any other meta products. As far as Tumblr, things might be a bit more complicated. Chris Trottier, a developer who is the admin for calckey . social , read Meta's latest press release about Threads and it mentions Tumblr as well as Wordpress, which many websites run, who are both owned by a company known as Automattic. His take is that Meta has likely been in discussion with Automattic about Activitypub and that could have a big impact on the Fediverse.
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I did see that, yes. Indeed I also think this isn't a big nefarious plan of Facebook to kill the Fediverse (we are probably too small for them to care), but the damage will be done by them never the less and we better try our best to limit the damage as good as we can.
For Tumblr I guess we will see in a few months.