They don’t need to federate to do that.

This is a bad take.

I only know Flipboard as bloatware on a Samsung phone.

Of only they’d kept port forwarding.

I loved Google+ at the time but I was invested in the Google services ecosystem back then.

I sort if have the same confusion. The more services pop up, the ore overwhelming it’s going to get for your average user.

I don’t know but I’m interested in the discussion. It never really matters which standard is better but simply which is more widespread.

Your typical Threads user isn’t going to use Mastodon or Lemmy though and we won’t be using Threads so I can’t see either being extinguished.

No I do think they’re sketchy, hence why I appreciate being able to interact with Threads without personally using it.

I thought the idea of Threads using ActivityPub was great and the exact sort of change that Fediverse fans would want? Most people aren’t going to use Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, etc but will likely be on board with Threads. Being able to interact with more people without having to use sketchy services sounds like a win to me.