There’s only a certain number of people in the world, and only a subset of them have easy access to the internet, and only a subset of them have disposable income.

Yet infinite profits are the expectation somehow.

No because they’re only doing this for Instagram users who are located in the United States. It hasn’t launched anywhere else yet.

Probably because it will be quite illegal in Europe so they probably are not going to do it for European users but it hasn’t launched there yet anyway so we don’t know.

The rule of GDPR is €10,000 or 5% of annual gross earnings (not net) per incident, whichever is greater.

Even the likes of Meta don’t want to deal with that kind of fine hence why Threads has not been released in the EU.

So it is totally achievable, the problem is the US government don’t actually want to fix the problem because of lobbying.

Setting things up on fediverse is overly complicated and could be made easier.

The biggest problem is it really isn’t all that clear what the pros and cons are various instances are, and the truth is that for the most part with the exception of a few particular instances it really doesn’t matter.

What might make the most sense is to have a website people can sign up on and then it just registers their account on one of a few instances to spread the load. Obviously that list I would have to be curated so it didn’t include obvious problematic instances,but it wouldn’t be that hard to do that. And that would make it as easy as threads is which basically is just an instance when all said and done.

It’s unfortunate there isn’t really a way to migrate accounts from one server to another. You basically have to create a new account which is a bit of a pain.

Implying that there is a current regime.