Just when you thought he can’t be any more embarrassing…

HDDs have fairly large neodymium magnets in them.

It’s not creating a “shadow account”, it is literally the same account. Threads is just a different frontend for what already existed with Instagram. And Meta would’ve been stupid, if they wouldn’t have use what they already have.

P2P vs hosting…

Depends on the HDD. If they have bad SMART results or are too small, they get disassembled for the magnets. HDDs that still have some life in them are used for cold storage backups.