Ah yes, let's link up a college town with a bunch of drunk kids with a complete lack of inhibition and a similar perceived lack of consequences. It will surely work great.
Yep. If your instance defederates from certain instances that others don't defederate from, you won't see comments from those defederated servers that others might still be able to see and interact with. This is the curse of a decentralized system where every node can make up their own rules.
That's plan, not actual. I somehow doubt it'll even reach that level; it's trying to save face with investors.
While the tech is impressive, I'm surprised Apple didn't do enough research beforehand to understand if there's a market for chunky $3500 computer goggles. None of this is really new tech, and I'm sure the sentiment isn't hard to find.
You're right. But, the Fediverse is ActivityPub, and Threads is using ActivityPub, therefore Threads is part of the Fediverse.
The beauty of the Fediverse is you can defederate from whoever you want. But don't confuse that with thinking that you can change the definition and rules of what the Fediverse is.
My dryer's "energy saver" setting is just an hour on low with the moisture sensor reducing the time if needed.