Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.

giallo@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 874 points – Kev Quirk (@kev@fosstodon.org)
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The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

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The vast majority of P92 users will have 0 clue what federation/activitypub is, let alone actually log into Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, etc. For them, they will forever think of themselves as @username, not @username@meta.com.

There's an argument to be made that that's exactly why everyone else should defederate preemptively.

Exactly. I know it's a bit elitist, but I just don't care what meta users have to say about anything. If you're dumb enough to participate in their little data extraction operations then I don't want to know you.