As an alternative, you could just not use the product
I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
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Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#22Muting like this is in my opinion dumb. Just move on, you don’t need to ‘purge’ their ability to reach your eyes. Threads is brand new, and the home feed is not meant to be only people you follow as of now.
Nonsense. As with any and all "social media", block early, block often. It's your time, your attention, so you should get to choose what you see.
Of course, you run the risk of enclosing yourself into an echo chamber, but that's up to each individual user to consider.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#23Yes, when you have no followers/new posts from followers the feed with fill itself with what it thinks you might like. It's not very good right now because it probably needs more data points, but if I can suggest one thing, it's this: Get More Friends. That way the feed has people you want instead. Algorithms can only help so much in that space. I can't believe this isn't obviously pointed out.
It would be great if all these sites (including Reddit) just had a button "show me content I might like", instead of distracting me with click-bait.
I get too distracted and end-up wasting too much time doom-scrolling. I've deleted all my accounts.
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#24This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.
Yeah, I used threads for a few minutes and quickly discovered that’s it’s just not a product that caters to me… yet. Right now I think it’s probably only great if you’re really into the e-celeb scene. But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough and my feed will become full of stuff I care about. I’ll check back in on it in a couple months.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#25If you have to put that kind of work into a platform to make it usable, I would suggest putting it into a platform that aligns with your values. I just can't understand why anyone, even "normals", would be so eager to jump into bed with Facebook again after the last decade.
I don't think it's fair to call it getting into bed. More like trying out the new ice cream place that everyone is trying.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#26One of the most useful features on Twitter for me was the option to mute retweets. After doing this, my feed's signal-to-noise ratio skyrocketed.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#27This is a fools errand. Stop using it for a week. The product is a literal MVP right now and lots of stuff is in the pipeline. You’re spinning your wheels on this when shortly you’ll be able to see a different timeline.
Yeah, I used threads for a few minutes and quickly discovered that’s it’s just not a product that caters to me… yet. Right now I think it’s probably only great if you’re really into the e-celeb scene. But this is Meta/IG we’re talking about, I’m sure they’ll get their near-freaky level of algorithmic content targeting precision in there soon enough and my feed will become full of stuff I care about. I’ll check back i…
I discovered that it doesn't cater to me before actually using it. Googled how to use it on desktop, found that there is no way other than emulating the mobile app. Not for me, I pass.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#28I just uninstalled after 10 minutes of use because of this. Absolutely 0 interesting or organic content in the feed, just an endless stream of blue checkmark celebrity and corporation accounts making painfully cringy "hip with the kids" tweets.
Easily one of the most forced product launches I've seen in years.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#29You should see my block list on Twitter. It used to only be obnoxious people, but lately the number of shady ads that need blocking has shot way up.
Re: I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
#30If you have to put that kind of work into a platform to make it usable, I would suggest putting it into a platform that aligns with your values. I just can't understand why anyone, even "normals", would be so eager to jump into bed with Facebook again after the last decade.
If I already use Instagram, Meta isn’t getting much new information from my use of threads that they didn’t already get from IG.