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    effingjoe ,

    I never was much of a Twitter user (and if we're being honest, that carried over to Mastodon) but after about 30 seconds on Threads I hated being bombarded with posts from people I didn't know or care to know desperately trying to attract followers on the new platform. Threads is (unsurprisingly) making itself into a clone of late-stage Twitter, instead of Twitter back in the day. Hard pass

    Jeze3D OP ,
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    smokinjoe ,
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    Damn. Threads is so bad you nuked your instagram account as well?

    id_kai ,
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    The whole "we're going to show you posts from everyone" is what made me stop too. I hated seeing so much shit that I just didn't care about. I can follow a few people and it just doesn't matter because they're being shouted down by the sheer amount of useless posts.

    effingjoe ,

    At least Twitter had a way to only view the people you followed, if you could find it. I only spent a short time looking for it, but I couldn't find any option to do this in threads. That makes it worse than Twitter, as far as I'm concerned. (And man is that a race to the bottom haha)

    Edit: and no edit on threads, either. Yes, this edit was performative.

    blivet ,
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    Yeah, same here. I spent my entire time on Threads clicking on everything I could find, trying without success to find a view that just showed the people I followed. I guess it's continuing the time-honored Facebook tradition of not letting you decide what you want to see in your feed.

    Mystical_Toe_Cheese ,

    I haven’t had the courage to investigate Threads yet, and you just convinced me it’s really not necessary.

    Saitama ,

    I had no idea Threads was a thing until the last few days, and everything I’ve read since there makes me think it’s kind of a pathetic half assed effort like Google+, but awfully desperate to try to get people to like it and pay attention.

    5redie8 ,

    Hard pass

    Good luck turning back bro, Facebook convienently hard linked your two accounts, say bye bye to your insta account too!

    Drusas ,

    Not everyone has an Instagram account.

    effingjoe ,

    I haven't looked into it much, but as I understand it, you can "deactivate" a threads account, but as you say, you cannot delete it without also deleting Instagram.

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