My main question is: What is Meta's goal with federation?
Been trying to figure this out for a while. To get our users/content? The entire fediverse is tiny compared to Threads. EEE? Entirely possible, and others have pointed out how they'd do it, but they haven't federated yet and it feels like it'd be near pointless given the content disparity, though an evil corp will always try to monopolize. To get around EU gatekeeping laws? Possible, and would explain why they haven't launched in europe yet.
Damn that's a nostalgia trip. Haven't seen lemon party in a long time. Early internet was full of links to it.