Today I’ve been playing around with Threads a lot. I have a lot of concerns about it - primarily the fact that it’s run by Meta and uses an algorithmic timeline, but I’m enjoying it quite a bit. I had many thoughts when Twitter started to fall apart and I’ve been exclusively using Mastodon (Ivory) this year but Mastodon still lacked a lot of the journalists, “influencers”, and other people that I liked to follow. Threads has gotten these people to join instantly and it makes it a much more interesting place to visit. This feels much more like a true Twitter replacement and I’m curious to see how it evolves over the next few months. I’m hopeful that they’ll add a chronological view or at least a followers-only view (I keep getting #brands shoved in my face on the algorithmic timeline) and I’m curious to see if they actually integrate with ActivityPub and let me follow people that might stick to Mastodon (or let me follow people on Threads if I abandon in for Mastodon). We’ll just have to wait and see.