A large corporate shopping mall settles in a nice neighborhood with small local run shops and community centers. The new shopping mall says ‘if we settle here, more people will come, and you all will benefit’. A few years later all small shops are bankrupt and the community is destroyed. What remains is a barren corporate landscape.
I guess so that they can get their dirty hands on teh fediverse data “legally” and, I assume, have their own shiny app that pumps ads down your throat. There’s a post somewhere regarding the permissions that threads asks for - pretty much everything you do on your phone will get sucked up by meta.