[blurrybird]

This experience always shocks me because it’s not aligned with my own.

Even on Twitter I never saw that junk. I followed almost exclusively tech folk, AWS community heros, NodeJS developers, Architects and Platform Engineers.

I’m not even a developer, but I followed them to be exposed more to that topic.

As a result, my feed was 99.9% technical content and product management content.

I got the same result in under an hour with Threads too - just mute every. Single. Thing. That you don’t want to see for an hour and then kill and re-launch the app. You’ll never see politics again.

[kahnclusions]

Even if you mainly follow tech folks, there are many who get very political…

[u320]

Yeah I follow some music profiles on Instagram and all Threads gave me was their music stuff replaced with their takes on Israel/Gaza.

[duxup]

I have theory that folks who have established profiles and settings and following underestimate what it takes to go from zero to useful from scratch now as far as curation goes.

[k12sosse]

Do you spend the majority of your waking hours dedicated to ensuring all tracking (small-t as in habits or content enjoyment, not location tracking or government chip implants) is gone from your life? A lot of people who do get stuck in this revolving door of trash which is targeting those users. Sort of like: you spend your life trying to not be targeted, only to be targeted as the group that never wants to be targeted.

[rconti]

Nope, not at all. Minimal effort in fact.

[alangibson]

> just mute every. Single. Thing.

'just' is working hard there. After the 20th attempt at avoiding crap posts most people just give up.

[u320]

I was in the process of doing that when I came up with an simpler and a lot more reliable method: Deleting the Threads profile.

[Exoristos]

So, a poor-man's LinkedIn.

[duxup]

No matter how bad that’s probably still better than LinkedIn. When I login there, I don’t see anything I actually am interested in.