It's not clear that people do not want to pay for it - none of the major social media network people want to be on have ever offered a paid option that would di

It's not clear that people do not want to pay for it - none of the major social media network people want to be on have ever offered a paid option that would disable ads/dark patterns or add valuable features. The very few social networks that may have tried this were too small to matter even as free services, let alone paid, so no surprise it didn't work out.