People like to pretend they are hyper privacy/anti-Google focused, but then give over their entire life and capture what they had for dinner on FB and instagram
Every couple of years I try firefox, and it doesn't take me long to be disappointed. Usually just some random incoherent firefox incompatibility with a major feature like logging in on a site or something.
Blue LEDs used to be super expensive. Therefore, only high end electronics had them. So once LEDs got dirt cheap, everybody started dropping blue LEDs on everything to capture that "premium" feel.
I just bought a new Magsafe charger. Something that generally lives in someone's bedroom shouldn't have the brightest fucking blue light I've ever seen on it. But it does.
Took one night to cover that fucker with electrical tape.
I don't think accepting reality is making excuses.
Comparing meta to beehaw, or really anything else, is truly coming up short. Meta is the 8 ton gorilla in the corner. If the numbers that were released about 30 mllion people on Threads is true, they instantly have 10x the total population, and that numbers going to go up as more people stumble upon it.
Point being, Threads doesn't need any other communities. People using Threads are those people who have never used reddit, and never would have signed up for lemmy. These people are also the same ones who don't care about if their content is coming from a federated source, or just Threads.
Passing through a NIC just adds complexity, not lessens it. And is a bad idea for a plethora or reasons