[Ars Technica] "Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon"

Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies.

Mostly sharing for this prime bit of W3C mailing list sass in response to Meta software engineer Ben Savage's self-introduction:

“The company you work for does disgusting things among others. It harms relationships and isolates people. It builds walls and lures people into them. When that doesn't suffice, brutal peer pressure does … That said, welcome to the list, Ben.”