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I'm all for it if gathers up a whole bunch of basic/casual internet users and keeps them in the shallow end of the pool. I know it sounds elitist and snobby but I don't even care any more. If the people who turned reddit and twitter into destinations for celebrity gossip and meme ghettos have their own little neck of the woods then everybody wins.
People are worried about it being an E/E/E manoeuvre but I see it as a plus happening this early - a great scenario to test and observe how federation (and defederation) works in practice and gives the whole ecosystem some experience in dealing with potentially hostile actors.
So far though, worst case is if threads turns out to be a real blight on the fediverse, then major instances with defederate them and that will be the end of it.