Why I won’t be joining Threads:

“For You is the default experience when you open the Threads app,” Meta spokesperson Seine Kim tells The Verge. We’ve asked Kim if Meta plans to add a way to set Following as a default in the future.

Making an algorithmic “For You” tab the default position is toxic and manipulative. It also happens to be one of the main reasons why I had to finally delete Twitter.

James R. Hull @jhull