For every other social media site I ever joined, it was a slow build. Find some people I knew or knew of, as first it was quiet then after a while it was maybe even too much. But that was after using it for quite a while.
With Threads, I joined on the first day and almost immediately there were more threads than I could possibly see. Add to that the feed being algorithmic instead of chronological, and it’s like I’m getting a random order of threads every time I check. Like its compatriots Facebook and Instagram, it reloads the feed every time I open it. Stuff disappears before I can read it.
Like its sibling Instagram, there’s no iPad app and we’re guessing there never will be one. I don’t see a way to use it on my Mac or in a browser, and I don’t like being forced to pick up my phone every time I want to check.
A lot of people and accounts who I had hoped would join Mastodon are already on Threads. My best hope now is that Threads implements ActivityPub, allowing Mastodon users to follow those accounts that way. The big reason I stay on FB is because of people I want to stay in touch with who are on there. Otherwise I would have dropped it long ago. Threads is already having the same effect. I’m using it way more than I would have expected, even though I don’t love it.