Comment by Pxtl

This is why I'm hopeful that Threads will federate with Mastodon instances. It just makes sense to have companies and governments and other institutions run their own private mastodon instances, and us vast unwashed people who just want a free place to read the news and shitpost to follow on a site like Threads where advertising dollars cover the costs of servers and moderation. There's no reason that eg the BBC should be posting on somebody else's infrastructure, but it's obviously of benefit to both the BBC and Threads to have Threads users to be able to follow and boost posts from BBC's staff.