I don't think the comparison to react makes a ton of sense - Facebook created react as an open source project, but once you download react, you have a copy of it for yourself and you don't need to check in with Facebook any further. They don't own your react app or its data.
I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like threads will not be like that: they will be using an open standard that they did not create for a social network that will track you and gather your data every time you use it.
(I am for defederation)
Some really seem to love Paul more than Jesus. It seems so easy for bigots to find parts of the bible they agree with and ignore how Jesus acted entirely, since it's all part of the bible. One of many reasons I view Christianity as a net negative in the world.
Maybe if they're smart enough to do that we can just let them pass
Tbh I think a lot of developers either don't know that they need to fix this or don't know how to fix this. They get a mock-up from the designer and implement what they see, and their implementation work is reviewed be other engineers and product people, but less often (IME) by UX. Sometimes there's no one to push for fixing these kind of things, especially when the developers don't use the software they make in their own day-to-day lives.
That's correct (11 years old) - I do believe this, though (or at least that it's mostly accurate). I don't think we get a really clear picture of this group online - they're probably not going to be posting a lot on the major text-focused social media networks (including facebook, for example).
To me it seems like it's not so much about city vs. rural but about rich vs. poor. One thing that's really fucked up to me is how school funding in the US is generally heavily based on the property taxes from the immediate area - so areas that are already rich get the best schools, and poorer areas have worse. I don't believe the situation will change anytime soon, unfortunately.