Threads’ Fediverse bridge is in maintenance mode. Almost nobody used it. What the failed threat teaches us about owning your online identity.
They made it super cumbersome to even activate the integration. Almost feels like they wanted it to fail even before admins started defederating.
I mean, the threat was, but the fediverse reacted and most instances (that I know of) just defederated preemptively.
This blog post seems to point and laugh that “see, we hadn’t needed to put out that fire, it’s fully extinguished now”. Well, yes. Because we put it out.
But there is also the point that Meta users and Fedizens didn’t really have any interest in federating with each other. In that respect, the outcome was fully foreseeable, and Meta’s attempt pure signal value for the corporation.
