Itās just teeing up discovery Iād guess the IP they are concerned about is algorithms and scaling,the two obvious places other competitors struggled
As with email, where we can all be on different providers and still communicate together, Threads integrating into the fediverse (where Mastadon already is) would allow them to work together. I could post on Mastadon and you could follow my Mastadon account on Threads and see that post. Itās the way this should have worked all along, but is not intuitive enough for general consumers at low scale. With someone like Meta pushing it forward it will finally be more easily embraced
If Threads connects to the fediverse it could actually help Mastadon. Being untethered to a specific provider is the way. Itās highly ironic that it takes Meta to help it scale into viability
My guess is theyāre preempting attempts by meta to enable importing follow lists. Software companies always look for āstickinessā 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 Iāve not seen any added value in fasting for me. Sticking to my calorie budget is already sufficiently challenging that Iād be concerned about burning out by adding additional barriers.
From my experience so far, randoms seem to lessen the more people you follow. Thereās probably a setting on how many threads they show you and it will fill with your follows first, and then randoms