This is not the issue you should be scared of.

You should be scared because every terminally online non-technical person you know ALREADY has a Thread account.

Here’s the way it will go down:

• Thread federates
• Users complain it’s too hard to remember the @mastodon.social vs @thread.meta or whatever
• Meta removes requirement for Thread users to have to do that within Thread when mentioning for searching other Thread users
• Thread users complain to users outside Thread that it’s annoying they have to “be that way” and they should “just use Thread to make it easy, dude”
• at the same time Many instances defederate with Thread
• Thread adds “Megaheart” superlike feature that adds a sticker with an animation to someone’s “prick” (what do they call posts over at Thread anyway?)
• Users on Thread complain that they can’t superlike users from other instances
• Users from other instances get sick of their complaining and move to Thread’s instance
• Important business and service accounts move to Thread to “ensure comparability and availability”
• Thread defederates from the larger network, having captured all the important content that people find useful
• The rest of the fediverse remains mostly people posting about the fediverse, how to host their own instance, and arguing about how to move forward on an increasingly fruitless-seeming open source project.

( - in 2032, Thread decides to charge for API access, citing “freeloading app developers who have been profiteering off their hard work”)