Thanks for taking the time to answer. I did read all of it, and was planning on responding to each individual point, but it all kind of melded into one combined thought.
I guess from what I’m thinking, it’s sounding like this is the pessimistic expectation:
Threads will do all that they can to entice people onto their platform.
They will go for people with low standards of privacy and high expectations of networking, and try and win them over with features.
Once they’ve been won over, they become Meta’s product, and once they have enough products they will cut ties and leave us high and dry.
But, if we “make a stand” against it now, because we expect to be a frog in boiled water if we don’t, how exactly does that improve the above outlook? We’ve walled the garden for them. The people with lower standards will be won over by default.
I guess it may just be a difference of opinion, where you think it protects us, but in my view it just makes the decision easier for those individuals since they are forced to choose. I’m thinking that with coexistence comes the opportunity to rip users of similar ideologies over to our side while Threads grows.