A good chunk of the admins of the big servers either are techbros or work/worked for Google as their day jobs. This includes mine, who currently is an engineering manager at Google. He seemed a bit upset that we were all so pissed at Threads federation, but he did follow our suggestion and defederate from them.
It’s positive that not all from Mastodon are on board with it, and “Fediverse stakeholders” sounds too much like IPO talk.
A good chunk of the admins of the big servers either are techbros or work/worked for Google as their day jobs. This includes mine, who currently is an engineering manager at Google. He seemed a bit upset that we were all so pissed at Threads federation, but he did follow our suggestion and defederate from them.