Threads is the smaller player here compared to twitter/bluesky. and bluesky is a direct compeditor for activitypub with their own federation protocol.

So now Threads has to play nice to have any chance at all. A part of the fediverse pie is better than no pie at all.
I hope Tumblr joins too.

No, they pay to get trained, so it's the opposite.

So you identified a problem.
But complaining does not fix anything, How can we combat toxic behaviour and make this place good?

Met kbin een beetje, maar ik denk niet dat ze dat in de komende 6 maanden verbeteren. daarna wel

I'm anti awards and status. donations on feel good works good enough to cover the expenses.

If it's a real instance? No problem, deal with it!

In the futute I expect there would be spam instances with fake upvotes, yes those should be banned.

And they forget about the problems if a main reddit is toxic.

The move from /r/Netherlands to /r/TheNetherlands was a pain.
And then 2 years later they opened up /r/Netherlands again, with not a single native speaker in the mod team, so it's english only. Using a historic flag that has problematic nazi links.
So many casual visitors got lost at the bad subreddit.

Reddit killed internet fora. By being easier and cheaper, while making no profit.

If they suddenly do want to make profit?
The terms change, there are alternatives.