Agreed. Defederate Facebook as you would any toxic instance.

That's not a realistic proposal if Facebook volunteers dev resources to improve and support ActivityPub and we grow to rely on that. In the same way that Google co-opted the W3C to now just accept Chrome as the default, I can see something similar happen if Threads really kicks off and has a ton of effort put into it.

It's a lot more grey than you'd expect given the absurd resources that nation states have compiled to try and usurp Google's dominance, but all the same I'd rather not have the internet rely on something made by a publicly traded company that cuts projects on a whim.

One puff piece by a popular site/magazine with a title like "You've heard of the fediverse, now it's easy to join" and people will trip over themselves to sign up.

Maybe. Or maybe the average person can use Meta’s decentralized instance and the non-average can use the smaller, less popular one. I’m down with that.