And be on the hook for releasing the source code a la Truth Social?

No modifications to the upstream source means that no modified sources need to be released. Lemmy also just points to the Github in the footer.

Although looking at your response, I’m assuming you just don’t care about it 🤷‍♂️ which is fine if that works for you.

Tracking is not fine for me but it's also something that each user should decide for themself. One should be aware that public content is really public and anyone can see it. If I don't want to accidentally like something in Threads, Mastodon allows me to block entire domains. The instance does not need to pretend to be my parent and protect me.

My issues with FB specifically

And nothing is about blocking federation with Threads.

Google is the closest analog to FB, but they’re not running social experiments on you without your consent (unless you want to speculate on YouTube’s algorithm)

As someone who recently got very funky stuff on YouTube which disappeared on a private tab: There are experiments going on.

Not sure what experiments on Facebooks have to do with federation but this underlines my thought that people just look up for excuses because blocking Threads feels right to them even if there is little technological reason for this, especially considering that ActivityPub support is not even there and nobody can make an informed decision about the effect of Threads on the network.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not like Google either.

So blocking all Chrome users then?

Amazon’s antics are mainly confined to online retail, same goes for their ads service if that still exists.

And everything hosted on AWS.

Microsoft is very, very easily avoided, with the obvious exception of work environments.

Threads accounts can also be easily avoided on Mastodon because users can just block entire domains, therefore the instances don't need to patronize its users.

If I were a Chrome or Edge user and synced all my history to Google/MS, this is literally tracking.

I’m curious as to what your opinion of Facebook is?

facebook.com is lame. The Meta corporation is run by a soulless robot but there are some smart engineers employed there who do good work on open source projects. My workplace wants me to use WhatsApp so I have it on my work phone only, I decided on my own not to install it on my private phone but would not want an Android ROM where the maintainer decided for me that I must not ever install WhatsApp because people should be able to decide for themselves which content they consume. Their VR products look interesting but AFAIK they mandate an account which is against my conviction to not be patronized by I product I paid for.