I don’t believe it is about getting their userbase for the benefit of this instance but rather that defederating from a large amount of users not participating in any malicious activity on the basis of someone affiliated with that instance posting malicious works on another instance is (at least in my opinion) antithetical to the idea of the fediverse.
Doing so would step into the fallacy of collective punishment

Wow I thought all of the crying about “tankies” was blown way out of proportion but lemmygrad sure is a special place 😖

“By the way, if you are a Linux developer who disagrees with IBM’s actions and you believe in Linux freedom the way we do, we are hiring.” brought a smile to my face :D

Gotcha. I’ve just now seen that threads doesn’t support activitypub. I thought that the entire idea was to integrate with platforms like these, but oh well what did I expect :D

Still curious to see if they actually implement it and how it’s going to turn out for them.

I’m new to the whole fediverse thing, so how would you create a barrier to entry apart from individual instances not federating with instances they see as abusive?

I was wondering why I didn’t hear about Threads. But apparently it’s not available in Europe due to privacy concerns.