Instagram head says Threads feed with people you follow is ‘on the list’ of possible features

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has responded to calls for a Threads home feed that only includes posts from accounts you follow, saying it’s “on the list” of features the platform wants to add. Mosseri sent Message in response to a Youtuber Marcus Brownlee’s post feature requests, as well as photographer noah kalina, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also responded, posting a thumbs up emoji In response to Brownlee’s request.

If your initial experience with Meta’s Twitter competitor is the same as mine, your home feed will likely be filled with posts from random accounts recommended to you by the service’s algorithms, as well as content from accounts you actually decide to follow. have taken. In my case, these recommended posts are actually a lot more than the content I’ve chosen to see, but it’s hard to know how many because the threads only launched a few hours ago and are still adding new users. Used to be in their millions,

Although both Adam Mosseri and Mark Zuckerberg have actively responded to requests, their posts are far from a firm commitment to add the feature. But given that the main Instagram app already offers a similar option to Feed that includes a dedicated “Following” list, it seems unlikely that Threads will take a similar approach. However, in the case of Instagram, the feed with recommendations is still the default.

Meta has been more vocal about its future plans to integrate Threads with ActivityPub, the decentralized social media protocol that provides the basis for rival microblogging service Mastodon. Ultimately, the hope is that Threads users will be able to interact with other ActivityPub-based services. Adam Mosseri told my colleague Alex Heath in a recent interview that the protocol’s support for Threads could also allow users to take their viewers with them if they ever leave the service.