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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 comm

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.

k12sosse 3y ago
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 3y ago
  Nope, not at all. Minimal effort in fact.
kahnclusions 3y ago
Even if you mainly follow tech folks, there are many who get very political…
- u320 3y ago
  Yeah I follow some music profiles on Instagram and all Threads gave me was their music stuff replaced with their takes on Israel/Gaza.
alangibson 3y ago
> just mute every. Single. Thing. 'just' is working hard there. After the 20th attempt at avoiding crap posts most people just give up.
u320 3y ago
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 3y ago
So, a poor-man's LinkedIn.
- duxup 3y ago
  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.
duxup 3y ago
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 3y ago

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 3y ago
Nope, not at all. Minimal effort in fact.

kahnclusions 3y ago

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

u320 3y ago
Yeah I follow some music profiles on Instagram and all Threads gave me was their music stuff replaced with their takes on Israel/Gaza.

alangibson 3y ago

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

u320 3y ago

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 3y ago

So, a poor-man's LinkedIn.

duxup 3y ago
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.

duxup 3y ago

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.