I guess I didn’t specify well. What I meant was if Mastodon is an ad free (or at least let ads and more private) alternative to view Threads posts, along with Mastodon posts wouldn’t that reduce the number of threads accounts and reduce their growth? So wouldn’t defederating actually help draw more people to threads? Plus how would defederating reduce the E/E/E process that everyone is worried about? I would think it would accelerate it or best case have no impact…

Also I think I may have replied to the wrong comment lol

Honestly I am confused by this too. If you don’t federate with threads doesn’t that just make it easier to grow? Personally I am more curious about Mastodon now because if people I follow on twitter move to threads I can just use mastodon and not twitter or threads…