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I'm undecided.
On the one hand, Facebook/Meta are not interested in the health of the fediverse. This is clearly an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move. On the other... they're sure to have a large number of users, which in turn means a large amount of content that we'll want to view/participate in. Each of those users will in turn be an opportunity for us to encourage to migrate to the fediverse.
Is it? I certainly don't think Meta is doing anything because it's genuinely the "right thing", but that doesn't automatically translate to them already having a deliberate plan to kill off the fediverse by starting to use it before they add on their own proprietary features only available to their users.
My personal opinion would be that there's no need to pre-emptively defederate them. Keep yourself ready to defederate the instant they do something that's directly harmful to the community at large, but until then, hold off and let their users experience what the fediverse has to offer—and let our communities benefit from their increased activity.
Yes, as posted below I'm taking a "wait and see" approach. The Mastodon CEO has posted his thoughts on Threads, with some compelling reasons to not defederate:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
Wow thanks for sharing. I really think that last paragraph especially was a powerful one.