Meta’s Threads is running another test that may address a major long-standing complaint about the service. The company is experimenting with allowing users to set a non-algorithmic ‘follow’ feed as default, Mark Zuckerberg in a post.
The change, according to Zuckerberg, will allow users to choose any feed as the default, including newly announced ones. . But longtime Threads users will be relieved to finally have the ability to “unfollow” their default views. Until now, Meta has pushed users to the “for you” algorithmic feed, which has long been criticized for its problems. and his bringing a mix of weird posts from complete strangers to the top of users’ feeds
As part of the test, Meta will also allow you to make your feed “more visible” in the app. Zuckerberg did not say how many users will be participating in the test or how long it will take to make the feature official. “It’s interesting to see if and how people use it,” he said.
The update is the latest in a series of changes that the Meta has faced over the past few weeks from rival Bluesky. Observing the influx of new users after the election, Bluesky defaults to a feed of content from the accounts you follow, and while it’s had custom feeds for over a year, it doesn’t have a centralized algorithmic feed.
