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Meta is coming. I recommend blocking their domain, threads.net.
Use a text editor. Type "threads.net" (no quotes) and save the file as "blocked_domains.csv" (no quotes.)
Go to your Mastodon settings > import > blocked domains and upload the file.
Bingo!
To the people wandering in here all like "Why do you want to block Threads?" It's because any interaction with a threads.net account exposes our accounts to Meta's notorious privacy violations.
@crowgirl struggled to read article because I laughed so hard that I spluttered my drink everywhere
Can confirm, ZuckerThreads isn't appearing when I search in the iOS App Store from 
Thanks for confirming! 
@crowgirl oh well, it was fun while it lasted, but it's appearing in App Store when browsing from a French mobile network now 
That's not the real Threads app. Look carefully at your own screenshot.
@crowgirl top one isn't but I think the bottom one is…?
@crowgirl@hachyderm.ioMaybe. You may be able to install it, but it doesn't mean the service will work.
@crowgirl in…stall…threads…?! even just to see if it's real and works? ewww! :)
anecdotally I hear it is accessible without a VPN from Europe (why would Meta do any blocking at their end when there's tasty personally identifiable data just "volunteering itself" to their servers), and unless someone's managed to fool Apple's App Store approval process, it does list Instagram Inc as the developer
@crowgirl https://giphy.com/gifs/monty-python-UFzjusdrC1EOc I feel that GIF applies to this whole "thread of Threads" ;)