Some of my friends think that Threads is enough, and once they fill in some missing features it will suck the life out of Twitter.

They might be right. Hard to argue.

All I want is a playground with an open API and enough creative users to try out new ideas from developers.

I want to go back to the pace of innovation we had going in the 90s and 00s. The big platforms snuffed all that out, corralled it and kept it in some too-restrictive bounds. Did what BillG failed to, locked us in the trunk and cut off the air supply.

That some of these people were the most fervent advocates for open platforms says that maybe those beliefs ran pretty thin, and the opportunity to cash it out for billions made it worthwhile.

Maybe we'll just be hobbyists. I'm okay with that. Or maybe people are will to pay good money to sustain creative development.

I don't expect that to be possible on Facebook's new network.