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This. I don't care what Google or Meta do, I will never use their services.

made the service much slower for people not on their server

I call bullshit. People not using Google servers were unaffected. The problem is people using walled gardens instead of making XMPP compatibility a requirement.

What are you talking about? OP got it right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition

You can sort by controversial?

Mom said it was my turn to repost this. Downvoted.

But it gets easier with every thing. You learn the more general concepts too.

If the admin decides not to block them it's the users' decision. And users can choose not to use instances who block Threads.

I have spent [...] thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms

I don't believe you. If you spend that much time on something you get good at it.

I agree. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves. My only concern is that Fediverse servers will suddenly become expensive to host because of the Threads traffic. But this would also happen with many users on many smaller instances and is not specific to Threads.

When the big corporations leave people just need to reist the "oh the user numbers are so small now, the Fediverse must be outdated" fallacy. Just like XMPP. Still works great, we just need people to use it instead of the silos which are popular now.

We should treat them like any other instance. If they are a good citizen of the Fediverse they stay, otherwise they will be blocked and nothing has changed.