I didn't join the Fediverse to have Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or any other corporate surveillance outfit follow me here and mine data my data from here. I too hope SDF will block Threads.

I'm out of the loop here. What's going on with Meta and the fediverse?

I agree with these other two posters. Why not wait and see what Threads even ends up doing before they're potentially defederated? Obviously, Meta wants to find some way to make money from the Fediverse, but will it actually affect users who aren't registered on their servers? Let's see.