Especially since a federated Mastodon server (since that's the clearer peer service) means you can actually decide which Threads users you see rather than Trusting the AlgorithmTM. That's a pretty strong pitch to get people to migrate once they're sick of their feed just being 85% brands and influencers paying for reach.
I'm more concerned with the expected lack of Threads moderation making a lot of work for admins who need to continually ban individual Threads users with no hope of the originating instance policing itself.
If someone big declared (AOC included), the party would have to run a primary, because arbitrarily shutting them out would be more damaging than debates and internal dissent, but all the big names know they couldn't win a primary and would only hurt Biden in the general so they're falling in behind him. As long as it's joke challengers like RFK Jr. and Marianne Williamson though, they can scrap it without worry.
There is no progressive that could win the primary anyway. The risk the establishment is guarding against is about damaging Biden. I don't feel confident about his chances against anyone but Trump, but there just isn't an alternative politician with the strength to challenge him as an incumbent. He simply hasn't been bad enough for weakly ideological primary voters to vote against the incumbent and the names with the biggest progressive gravitas already lost against him last time without that hindrance.
If the Democratic party needs unity when the Republicans are divided, when exactly would dissent ever be acceptable? Seems like this is just a pitch to always be unified, which in turn means never challenging the party establishment.
They'll avoid the problem in favor of short term benefit. Any belief I had that the Democratic insiders had a long-term masterplan went out the window with how little they've done to pump up Harris. I don't even want her to be an eventual nominee, but I thought they'd be purposefully building her as the trusted heir apparent. Instead they just dumped no-win issues on her while making her mostly invisible in the administration's wins.
Especially since a federated Mastodon server (since that's the clearer peer service) means you can actually decide which Threads users you see rather than Trusting the AlgorithmTM. That's a pretty strong pitch to get people to migrate once they're sick of their feed just being 85% brands and influencers paying for reach.
I'm more concerned with the expected lack of Threads moderation making a lot of work for admins who need to continually ban individual Threads users with no hope of the originating instance policing itself.