Why block them? I like a little spice with my scrolling. Plus it’s a fun mystery box to see what’s under the blur. Straight/gay? Cis/trans? That one guy that literally just posts 100 fully clothed celebs every hour to disappoint you? Who knows.
If things played out in just the right way, this could push them away from the Fediverse entirely, I’d think. Seems it would be hard to monetize any traffic coming from the Fediverse end of things, which would make the whole thing more of a headache than it’s worth for them.
An instance that was explicitly set up as a read-only backdoor to Threads probably wouldn’t stay federated long, but is a cool idea at least.
Boss: “And here I see you’ve accessed something called ‘Lemmy’ 315 times today, what the hell is that?”
@ttmrichter: “Oh, no worries, I blocked all the porn.”