Just your run-of-the-mill friendly neighbourhood fox.
To be fair, 3% of traffic missing is not going to be their downfall. They managed to rid themselves of virtually all third party clients in one swoop and had to trade in only a fraction of their monthly engagement - they’ll sell it as streamlining.
I think threads being able to make content that’s a threat to them invisible to their users by “unethically defederating” is exactly what the op is talking about. What they were likely referring to is this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Doesn’t matter that users from other instances can still see threads content. It’s about threads accumulating the majority of users due to better infrastructure and then silencing smaller instances they deem a threat to them by defederating. It’s only been a few hours and they’ve crossed 30 million users.
Started with LastPass, used it for 10 years. Switched to Bitwarden a while ago, would never go back.
Well the resistance isn’t without reason:
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html