It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.
We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.
I think the more concerning part is the medium in which people use Threads. It’s one think for Meta to scrape for data, it’s a much worse thing for someone to install the apps on the phone.
That’s the last, worst step… Installing any Meta app on your device, making it a de facto telescreen.