Sure, every other time the water has kept getting hotter and hotter like this it ended up boiling but honestly I really trust the corporations here and I think we should just wait it out! They promised they were just going to slowly heat the water up but not bring it to a boil so I don’t see a reason not to trust them.

Which they do, if you are trying to boil them.

If mastodon federates poorly with Lemmy, I can only imagine that threads will federate even worse with Lemmy.

That's assuming that Threads (meta) starts federating with all the fediverse, which is a big assumption.

My own opinion, based on nothing, is that they will federate with a few handpicked mastodon instances and block everything else. Mainly due to content moderation.

But can't Mastodon post on Lemmy and Lemmy can't block instances on an individual basis? That's the way I understand it currently stands. I don't want threads showing up in my feed and would like to block them.

How many users are on your instance? I've never heard of it.

I get what you meant, which is why I replied, I'm saying that that word means the opposite of what you intended.

To patronize someone is not a bad thing, the word means "to be someone's customer/patron" and through doing so, supporting and helping them. That's where patreons name comes from, for example.

In the phrase "don't patronize me" it's used sarcastically to say "I know you're trying to help, but please don't" but the word doesn't actually refer to someone who is going over your head to do things for you. It's actual meaning is 100% positive, and hence confuses what you're saying. Which is that blocking threads should be done by users because it should be their decision.

Instead, your final sentences literal meaning, paraphrased, is "a server-wide block would be really good and helpful for all my users".