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"But you don't understand! If #Threads federate with the #Fediverse, evil #Meta will siphon all of our data."

I assume that by "data" you mean all of our collective public posts that have been crawled by hundreds if not thousands of robots already, including Meta's, right?

"But you don't understand! Meta is evil, it wants to take control of the world and all that. Also, embrace extend extinguish... Don't you know about embrace extend extinguish? I learned the expression last Spring, now I need to use it to pretend I know what I'm talking about. Look, I'm doing it again: embrace extend extinguish!!!"

Yes, yes. I fully understand. Meta's path to world dominance goes through crushing the Fediverse. Meta and its three billion users (and you're probably already one of them, and I'm not even talking about the ghost accounts here) have one hurdle left for world dominance. It's a group of geeks and nerds, all two or three million of us. Is it a case of not understanding what a billion is again?

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