The “Best of both worlds!” was the part that should have told you that it was a joke. That and the fact that the statement is purposely ridiculous.

You underestimate how uninformed people are.

I guess I’m lucky to be on lemmy.ca, but it’s concerning that a lot of the popular stuff is located on two servers. What’s the point of the fediverse, then?

People signed up for Threads because it was “the hot new thing,” not because people wanted their data to be collected. I bet most users don’t even realise how much data is being collected from them.