The whole point of Threads seemed to be the flex that they could blitzkrieg their app to market at the precise moment that Musk was floundering with the service and shedding users

Even Bluesky with a ex-Twitter folk and have been seemingly developing a competing platform couldn’t execute like that. Mastadon was in no position to capitalize like that.

So the choice to not integrate it into IG makes sense to me. All you have to do is be there, and timing is everything.