"I decided not to follow anyone. And so, for the last couple days, I have only been seeing the raw machinery of Threads. Its algorithm is just blasting me with random posts and, every so often, it tries to show me more of a particular user I click on or spend too long reading in the feed.

"My verdict: Threads sucks shit. It has no purpose. It is for no one. It launched as a content graveyard and will assuredly only become more of one over time."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-algorithmic-anti-culture-of-scale

The algorithmic anti-culture of scale

Here's what 24 hours inside of Threads has been like

Garbage Day
@davidgerard @joshbuchea I'm not sure why it is so hard to understand that if you follow a bunch of people Threads will show you posts from just those people, but if you aren't following anyone it fills your feed with a bunch of randos.
@mikemccaffrey @joshbuchea in others' tests, it appears to fill your feed with randos as well