Meta’s threads app is a data-mining monster. A free app is free at what cost? Why are we so willing to give tech companies private data—significantly when these companies are pivoting into AI? Not trying to sound like a doomer, but do y’all remember Cambridge Analytica?

I think that also goes for the people who make the app. If they weren’t data greedy, a centralized network would work.

It would not. Facebook isn’t the core problem, capitalism is. Any social network given enough time and users is incentivized to do if not the same thing, very similar ones

A subscription base model, without ads, and privacy focused might work.

The average person is not going to pay money for a social networking site