Gate keeping time, this is one of few situations where gate keeping is good

They’ve found a way to push disguised ads, haven’t they?

If the rest of the instances let them, then yes, but if none of the instances do, then no.

Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn’t pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That’s problematic, because it’s also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.

I‘m pretty sure Lemmy lets you block instances just like Mastodon. In that case, if your instance decides to federate with them, you can just block that instance.

As long as meta isn’t instantly defederated, and as such I guess I should switch to an instance that will defederate simply to keep ads away.

My home instance is taking a wait and see approach. If we get a bunch of ads or hate speech then they’re out.