@simsa02 @JamesGleick It may be due to a plentiful lack of understanding on my part, but I find Mastadon pretty easy to use, for the purposes for which I use it. I dwell in an ignorance of the details of the fediverse so vast that it protects me from getting mad about the things that are no doubt upsetting about it. It's what I know about Zuckerberg, Meta, and using Instagram and Facebook that will keep me from downloading the Threads app. Won't get zucked again.