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Yes, but the point you're trying to make doesn't make sense. The content subscription model for both of these are completely different.
On Twitter (erm, I bounced shortly after the X shenanigans...) you subscribed to people and mostly saw tweets of people you follow, and the tweets they re-tweet, so it's heavily individual-curated.
On Facebook you "subscribe" to people and groups. Because your feed is mixed between people and group posts, you're still getting a mostly-curated feed from friends, with algorithmic posts from groups. In the last few years they started blending in posts from groups/pages you aren't in if your feed doesn't have much content.
Lemmy is entirely different. You only subscribe to communities. The curation is moderation style and upvotes. Individual people can guarantee their way into everyone's feed by posting to the most active communities.
You completely missed the point.
There's a HUGE number of ragebait posters on Meta/Xhitter because that's what causes "engagement" and thus that's what the Meta algorithms will foster. Bringing in Meta won't dilute the ragebait. It will amplify it.
I haven't missed the point, I simply disagree with your assertion. The advocacy to preemptively defederate from Threads is grounded in unsubstantiated FUD.
19 years of unsubstantiation.
How much does Meta pay you to shill, I wonder?
Someone disagreeing with you isn't shilling.
I'm not sure why there's so much concern about hostility being a new thing when Threads comes in. Responses like the ones you've replied with demonstrate the existing userbase already has a few toxic apples.