The results are in around the #Meta / #Threads poll I put out a week ago and over 8.2K people have voted, thank you all
The recent App Store screenshots from the 'App Privacy' from Meta's new app Threads have concerned me and with the current status the question remains if it's even allowed within Europe
The chance that they will ever federate with us remains the question but with their current platform as-is we are gonna block them until many things improved
Keep in mind that the privacy settings from the Threads app you see on the screenshot only applies on THEIR platform
But I cannot be fully sure to what extend their data collection goes as far as search results for example
Until we have a better picture of how their new platform is gonna run in somewhat more details we can make a better decision
When / IF #Threads will release within Europe we will take another look and make a decision but until that happens we will keep the block
Since we are hosted in Europe I'm not sure it would be clever to federate with a platform that is not allowed in the EU
This is not about me trying to take away the choice for a user-level instance block but rather a more legal reason
Again, IF Meta/Threads where to federate with us their posts, users and media would end up on our servers(as a copy). And since we know they are not allowed within Europe yet I am not willing to take that risk and host their content! 
When the moment comes and they do release in Europe we will lift the block and let you decide for yourself!
This is about protecting the instance
@stux Federated stuff saved on your servers is not problematic at all (unless it breaks your local laws like kiddie porn and other awful stuff).
At worst maybe you break some American rule about data storage, but eh. We're likely way past that point anyway.
You're free to block Meta of course, but your reasoning sounds a bit flawed to me which is actually helluva confusing.
Meta is too lazy to make their app GDPR-compliant, which is why that isn't allowed. But them federating should be a seperate thing.
@trinsec Federated stuff will also be saved on our servers and media will be stored
Im not sure about the legal stance on that but I don't wanna take the risk as long as they cannot even make the EU rules
That is my minimal requirement of them