Besides of potential EEE tactics, Meta seems to be interested in collecting advertisement profiles off from the Fediverse.

So I came up with a term for it: fedscraping, or webscraping done on the Fediverse.

From what I expect, their whole plan will be:

1. Create an ability of interaction between Threads and the Fediverse.
2. Scrape the interaction data from it to build ad profiles.
3. Try to deanonimize any user on the Fediverse, then check if the user is available in any of Meta’s services.
4. Sell this data to advertisers.
5. Potentially sell some scraped data to governments in order to get favors from them (deregulation, tax breaks, etc.).

The last one is the most concerning, and will be used to prosecute political activists, marginalized people, and the likes. Many of them have already left Twitter, Facebook, due to ongoing hostility.