That’s a good point. I could imagine Meta will try to do kind of a “franchising” of the Fediverse. With many little Threads-instances popping up that are not maintained by Meta itself but give them a fee.

I think we should all be incredibly critical of any community and systems maintenance challenges in software released by meta, and be diligent about testing migrate-away scenarios. In fact, I would say that if they do release self hostable software, we make sure to port all the good features to FOSS software as quickly as possible.

Sounds like a good point although I’m not really in the opensource community to know how the dynamics are. Is it a threat scenario that is common and doesn’t this already fall under EEE?