When I try that link or the one @sqlrob posted above all I get is a screen with the Threads logo. I don’t see any post.
FYI using the latest Firefox
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I’m getting the sense they rushed this whole thing to take advantage of twitter’s data limiting debacle… a gambit that seems to have paid off. My bet is a lot of the functionality will be tweaked in the near future… I guess we’ll see…
I feel compelled to say again here that I’m fascinated by this whole thing not because I love Zuckerberg but because of the schadenfreude and desire to see Musk’s Twitter flounder and fail as proof that he was never as smart as people used to think and because he has become more and more (openly maybe) awful and cruel in recent years.
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BBC article:
Mr Musk said that “competition is fine, cheating is not” in response to a post on Twitter that referred to the legal letter.
On Threads, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone posted that “no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that’s just not a thing”.
This 5D chess game gets ever more complex… 
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Are you using ublock origin? Works for me on both desktop Firefox and mobile Firefox. There is a brief flash of the logo, then it loads
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It turns out that Meta just (as in, earlier this week) lost a high-profile lawsuit before the European Court of Justice that hinged exactly on Meta’s notion of “consent” vis-à-vis the GDPR. It probably comes as no surprise that they’re treading lightly here for a bit.
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Yes I am. I’ll try disabling it next time. Thanks
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err, not disable, add blocklists 
Looking at my lists, maybe add one of these? Here’s a screenshot of additional ones that may be relevant:
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Tried those, but got an error that “The page isn’t redirecting properly” when I click the links above.
Disabled them one-by-one, no joy.
I’m wondering if Threads is having issues. I’ll try again later and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestions. Even if I can’t get threads to work, those look like good filter lists to have generally.
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Oh I see now
If we’re browsing with Firefox with “Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection” enabled, then the threads.net home page doesn’t load at all, it’s just a blank page
With “Standard Enhanced Tracking Protection,” or also with no tracking protection, there’s nothing but a swirly animation and a “get the app” button
EDIT: oops the Meta product is threads.net 
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This is the Boing Boing BBS. Calling someone weird here is a complement.
You be you, you happy mutant, you.
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Now that will be interesting. Will those be geoblocked in the EU as well?
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IIRC Discourse scrapes the text from embedded tweets, and it looks as if scrapes the images too. I opened an image from an embedded tweet in a new tab and it was served by global[dot]discourse-cdn[dot]com.
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You mean the EU readers geoblocked out by Meta. The EU does not block sites, but many US news sites block suspected EU visitors to avoid GDPR compliance. Which is really stupid, because if they are doing that amount of geosniffing, they can just, y’know, not store cookies.
I am warming to the idea that Meta is keeping Threads out of the EU mainly because of antitrust worries: by piggybacking off of Instagram the bosses at Meta probably had a Cassandra in legal remind them of the current fines Facebook and Instagram are already facing, and how Threads could look like an attempt to establish a monopoly.
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Which is why I said “in the EU”, not “by the EU”
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