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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019s like I\u2019m 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like its sibling Instagram, there\u2019s no iPad app and we\u2019re guessing there never will be one. I don\u2019t see a way to use it on my Mac or in a browser, and I don\u2019t 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\u2019m using it way more than I would have expected, even though I don\u2019t love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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 … <\/p>\n