I got a number of answers that sound very weak to me, and basically point to a "fail" of the fediverse in its own nature if threads joins. Kind of disappointing.
To me, the key idea of the fediverse is that it's federated and should work as a whole, no matter who joins. Most of the answers below support the opposite. They are basically saying that the fediverse should stay within the "fediverse", which is exactly what non-federated social media are doing. Meh.
Aside from the "moral" argument, can someone ELI5 what harm can a federated threads.net do on other users (like me) and/or instances?
The "never obsolete" refers to a subscription service, where they would periodically send you updates somehow. LGR has a good video on this.
So can banks in the UK. There is one design for England, but a few for Scotland, for example.
Dark side and far side of the Moon are equivalent terms.
They probably want to monetize on podcasts too, in the same way they do on videos and music. At the moment, Google Podcast is completely free and ad-free.
Did they not try to bake in a digital assistant in Windows previously?
The bar is pretty low.
I came here to say exactly this. IG and all the others are private companies, with their own terms and conditions one agrees on, and also agrees those terms can be changed by them at any time. Moderation of content is part of it. Deal with it, or don't use them at all.
https://lemmy.world/post/10678878