If Threads connects to the fediverse it could actually help Mastadon. Being untethered to a specific provider is the way. It’s highly ironic that it takes Meta to help it scale into viability
My guess is they’re preempting attempts by meta to enable importing follow lists. Software companies always look for “stickiness” to make transitioning to competitors difficult, and this is theirs
Sounds like an aggressive but reasonable goal. I was in a very similar place (47, 260#) and calorie counting on LoseIt has worked very well for me. Personally I’ve not seen any added value in fasting for me. Sticking to my calorie budget is already sufficiently challenging that I’d be concerned about burning out by adding additional barriers.
From my experience so far, randoms seem to lessen the more people you follow. There’s probably a setting on how many threads they show you and it will fill with your follows first, and then randoms
Hint, from within instagram you can create a new, separate, account that will share your login but keep your identities unknowable by others. Ie, my instagram friends can’t see this other account I’m using for Threads