i know the fediverse has been pretty split and a lot of big instances (mainly microblogging and mastodon-like softwares, but some lemmy instances are defederating meta too) but what do you think?

    • 7egend@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The lack of ‘only people you follow’ tab is a huge over sight, that’s the thing I use the most because I’m rarely interested in any app’s recommendations.

      • nromdotcom@beehaw.orgEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        So my two theories are:

        • This was a rushed launch to capitalize on the latest Twitter shit show and the home timeline wasn’t done yet.
        • They didn’t want people to log into Threads and see nothing if none of their other follows have activated yet, so instead they force you to see everything so you don’t run out of content and disengage.

        Either way I’d expect to see it soon.

        • KnightfallEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Your second point is the same guess as mine. Although you might be right about rushing the app out the door. They knew Bluesky is on the horizon and Mastodon was picking up users.

    • KnightfallEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Once I followed people and accounts I wanted to see, their feeds automatically took over. What you saw was Meta filling the feed with something so average users don’t see an empty void and give up.

      A friend who signed up at the same time was seeing my activity too. If I responded to someone, he could see it and join in the conversation, and vice versa. I actually didn’t how Threads took this route. I personally found it more appealing than Twitter and Mastodon when I first signed up and had nothing but an empty feed and had to go find everyone.