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@flancian I think a core issue here, is a question of purpose, and it's a question that's going to keep coming up, and divide our community until it is resolved, through discourse or schism:

Is it more important that we are able to reach as many people as possible from our corner of the internet, or is it more important that we are the ones who control it?

@flancian One of my friends described how every instance is faced with a tension between three fundamental functions of a federated community, between reach, safety, and freedom of ideas.

To prioritize one is to compromise on the others.

The issue of Threads is an issue of safety vs reach. I'm going to say that I am personally *strongly* unwilling to sacrifice the safety of the instance, for the reach of federating with Threads, and also, do not consider reaching that audience worth it

@flancian Freedom of ideas is also in tension with Reach and Safety, because allowing anyone to say anything will result in getting defederated, limiting reach, and allowing authoritarian ideas or behavior also compromises safety.

Maximally prioritizing safety also limits reach and freedom of ideas.

There are some interesting connections to theories of social justice, for who increased reach helps vs harms, who would be more inclined to recognize and want to avoid that harm, and who wouldn't.