Good points. The musings of Lemmy/kbin/other users will be lost in the mass of karen posts, soccer moms, extremist views, god knows what else.

It’s pretty obvious that those who came here from Reddit or wherevee are looking for a place that is not dictated to by commercial interests, and if threads attaches onto these communities, I guess we’ll leave for somewhere else.

“According to various sources, the US gave $3.8 billion in aid to Israel in 2019123, the most recent year of complete data. Almost all of this aid was for military assistance12. This is part of a 10-year, $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding signed in 201624. Israel has been the largest overall recipient of US foreign aid since World War Two12.”