I think I have finally made my peace with Threads. Yes, it’s run by an evil billionaire (though slightly less evil than Elon Musk), it’s got terrible functionality, and the posts can be deeply annoying and full of scraped content and engagement bait. (And now it’s starting to add recommended followers in my notifications, which I’m trying to turn off.)
But I like a lot of the Threads community when you filter out the cloying, whiny, scrapy, baity stuff. (It got really bad after the election.) And if you game the algorithm enough – if you must go with the “for you” feed – the posts can be tolerable.
And yes, this means the social media pendulum has swung for me once again, and I’ve grown weary of Bluesky’s own irritating traits, like the relative radio silence and rising tide of follows from “resistance” accounts and donation solicitors. So at this point, I’m just dual-posting shorter stuff from here and trying to avoid spending a ton of time consuming either Bluesky or Threads.