I previously worked at a X competitor that launched around the time that Musk bought Twitter, we had custom feeds in 2022. It was called Post and it's was heavily news focused. We had a few million users but sadly it did not make it. Not nearly the same amount of traction as Bsky
I think this sort of copying and competing ends up in consumers getting better products in their hands. Now threads should build itself on an open protocol where users can control their data and view their data through other websites and services 🥰
Threads is just Instagram with the text above the images instead of the other way around. And somehow its even worse than Twitter. In Canada you can't even post links to news sources. Cool.
Their algorithm based timeline is still hot garbo. It not being owned by Meta brought me here, moderation lists to mass block transphobes and MAGA clowns who think we NEED their weird points of view keep me here.