• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m on mastodon, but the problem is none of the people I want to follow are (mostly sports press). for now I am relying on bots who just repost their stuff from twitter, and sometimes they go down for long periods of time. at this rate I’m not sure mastodon will ever take off for what I used twitter for.

    And threads is equally shitty, or worse than twitter. I begrudgingly signed up for an instagram account to try it, followed a few people, then my feed was crammed full of instagram catfish and sad ass middle aged dudes asking for dates. I get that they’re trying to hook you with algorithms, but in the process they’ve made the service literally unusable.

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      3 months ago

      Yea I tried threads recently myself & had the exact same problems. I followed like a total of 3 people, yet my feed was filled with utter crap that I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in…

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        3 months ago

        I’ve been on it for about a month. All the people I followed on Instagram (that have downloaded threads) automatically were added to my follows. Lots of Sci Fi and movie discussion

        Politics, too.

        My experience has actually been pretty good. It’s like Twitter but with a lot more leftists stuff

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          3 months ago

          Maybe if I had given it a real chance and started following a few more people, I might have had a much better experience. My feed was filled with random stuff that I was never going to have any interest in…