if you want good userbase, never mass migrate from normie platforms where majority of it’s users are trolls, memers, narcissist, corpos, shills, tankies, deranged politic fanatics, and many other terrible things that doesn’t need to spread to more of the internet.

doing witch hunts and driving away all the non-normative users because they were deemed undesirable by deranged normie redditors and then defederating entire instances for daring to give agency for free expression to said users was not a great plan

federating with threads aka facebook, well that can only go so wrong. It kind of defeats the purpose of fediverse to get away from the whole centralized metaverse. Zuckerberg will obviously scheme a plan to take over the fediverse and centralize it with his metaverse. It is big threat to fediverse.