A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.
However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don’t have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.
What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it’d be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.
What actions can we take to deal with Threads?
This strategy works so well it’s scary. Though sometimes the open protocol ends up winning… Spotify has been trying to kill podcasts for ages, but they’re not winning even by dumping money into exclusive content.
Spotify and Meta is after different products and customers. They are here to find opportunity to gather more data or clever way of monetizing content. Fediverse/users will be their product not their customers.