Interesting read about Meta/Instagram's "Threads" app, aka Fediverse Instance, is banned in the EU because of pernicious privacy invasion.

Many people are opposed to federating with Meta because they fear co-option of ActivityPub by corporations but I think this reveals that Meta will struggle if they embrace true federation. How can an ad based app would compete with ad free apps to view the same content?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-no-eu-launch/