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Moderators will basically be doing free work for meta. If a Lemmy.ml post blows up on threads then the ml mods will have to deal with the influx from threads users and basically moderate threads for free.
There's another reason to defederate. Most mods are volunteers. Lemmy currently really doesn't have the manpower to handle something with a userbase as large as Threads, and Facebook doesn't have a great track record with moderation, so it's unlikely they'd do anything about any issues in a timely manner.
Edit: kids -> mods, busy -> really; autocorrect was being stupid again.
I experience this a lot on Reddit where /r/Infiniti gets cross posted to a massive sub and now two mods are dealing with 500,000+ users. I can't imagine how much more annoying it would be if I was also paying to host the community.