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people are so naive, agin and again. if anyone thinks this is anything other than facebook trying to kill the alternatives, they should look at the history of gtalk/xmpp.
mastodon is a viable alternative to twitter, and this means that anyone can go: "there can be other alternatives". like reddit/lemmy, instagram/pixelfed, youtube/peertube, twitch/owncast, etc. and this is not good for business.
"I don't know why they 'trust me.' Dumb fucks." - Zuckerberg
Whether or not they have it in the back of their greasy little minds somewhere that they'd like to kill of every alternative that can't be bought out instead, this is also facebook desperately trying to stay relevant. If they don't federate, it's all or nothing: Unless they become completely dominant in the field of mastodon-like social media services their product will be quickly forgotten. If they do federate, they have some chance to survive if only by being known as the one, alone among the current billion-user contenders, that does actually federate.
Come on, Facebook is not trying to do anything. They don't care about mastodon and their pathetic million of users. Facebook is trying stuff hoping something will stick,that's all. Threads is not their main app and they are losing on it.