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?

People don't understand or don't care. We should all be using Mastodon or some other decentralized platform because we should have learned these lessons, but the creature comforts of centralized networks have most people's brains rotting.

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

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