Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to “activate” threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
You need to consider anything and everything you post to the Fediverse to be part of a public, everlasting record. At least in it’s current state, the Fediverse is not the place for privacy oriented users.
While Firefox was getting stale they invested in Pocket, and VPNs and stuff.
At least those products could have given Mozille a source of income in the long term if they became popular enough. Money that could have gone towards keeping Firefox going.
Not to mention pay later credit card cr@#.