Sounds like Meta wants to force you to give them your phone number.
I wonder if they will ever implement ActivityPub and federate. I know, there’s fear of “Embrace, Extend and Extinguish”, but still, that would allow privacy-minded people to follow Threads users without giving them such data by using Mastodon, CalcKey and other micro-blogging apps.
Yayy, fuck up your instance and use it for a damn Meta proxy.
I hope if they try that the instances simply defederate. And I like Federation and want more people on here, and I miss the variety of non tech content. But still, no thanks
People actively choosing a new network by Meta are just too stupid to be worth breaking our ecosystem, period.