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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The fact that you can’t control your feed hardly at all is the part that drives me away from Threads the most. The thing I loved about these social media sites back when they first launched (Facebook, Twitter, etc) was that the feeds were all sequential. That meant it was actually possible to keep up with everything posted by my friends, and there was an obvious stopping point. The day Facebook moved to pushing a non-sequential stream of content in your face was the day I realized these websites did not care about my experience at all. Now those websites serve you at least 75% garbage that isn’t even posted by any of your friends, and the only reason anyone uses it is because they feel obligated to use a site their friends supposedly also use.

    Federated social media instances just makes so much more sense. The users having control over the platform they use is the way this ought to be. There is absolutely no reason a huge corporation should be controlling our social networks for us.