Collecting data without secretly collecting data

[FillingTheVoidOnYT]

So the reason many of these platforms on social media are so popular is cause of their personalized feed such as tiktok it collects more data on an individual than an individual knows about themselves, just to draw their users into their platform to watch video after video. So what I am proposing is to collect data through a similar way reddit asks you to follow your favorite interests. This way users can opt to input their data so they can get personalized feed or simply have an skip button if the user isn't comfrontable.

[mstdn]

That's a nice way perhaps! I do not want to collect any data without the user giving permission :-) And also keep it as low as possible.

It's maybe an idea to add categories for posts and indeed let the user give in interests if they want to

[FillingTheVoidOnYT]

add categories for posts but keep them hidden so they are just tags, the user can give their interests upon making an account.