Laurens Hof at Connected Places wraps up the Threads / fediverse experiment:

My take is that Meta and Threads have played the game well. They immediately capitalised on the moment in 2023 when decentralisation and Twitter-alternatives got large-scale attention, and knew how to say the right buzzwords to ride the wave.

Threads with even partial ActivityPub support in maintenance mode is still better than a completely closed platform. But it is disappointing that Meta didn’t take this further.