It should be the users choice to block Threads, not the federation. What does Meta loose in getting defederated, they’re already able to scrape like everyone else, you’re just going to inconvenience users wanting an alternative. Some people want to see thread posts while also avoiding the data hell Meta is. Mastodon is a great way to do that and because of this will gain tons of users. Defederating will only gain meta more users since it took away the alternative option. Not everyone cares about the ecosystem like Facebook and Instagram but love twitter and need that addiction fix. The very small amount of users on mastodon will not make a dent in the profits of Meta at all.
No post has been made that I know of. Mastodon’s CEO laid out his stance in the post below and I would hope Lemmy would follow with them.
Lots of echo chambering going on in here about EEE and Meta profiting off of everything. In reality, they can scrape data like anyone else, the profit from such small communities is negligible, and defederating meta would only hurt those that defederated because way more users than people here think will want to see and manage Threads while also not needing a Threads account to avoid the data hell that it is.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/