Creating a focused Threads feed

I recently had a friend ask me how I’ve shaped my Threads experience. Over the last year I’ve found it quite delightful to use. Part of the reason is there are a small group of people I’ve followed from Twitter to Mastodon to Threads. These are people who are a mix of tech writers, content creators, developers, designers, and podcasters. Many of them I’ve followed for more than a decade across different careers. Some I’ve more recently followed and quickly grown to appreciate their opinions on things I care about. Even though I know few of them personally, I’ve felt that I’ve been able to grow into my career by learning what they’ve shared of their own lives. Many of them write and podcast outside of Threads, and I often use their posts as reminders to go and read/listen to more of their content.

Many of them know each other, and they’ve developed a community together.

By following, liking, and replying to their content, I’ve taught Threads to share more like that. So, while I do have to trim things occasionally by telling Threads to show me less of certain types of content, overall I have a catered experience that matches my general interest of following tech and developer news.

I’ve tried the chronological timeline on Threads, thinking I’d like it similar to Mastodon. But in all reality I prefer what Threads serves up to me. It just shows me more things that are interesting based on the initial people I chose to follow.

Overall it’s made it quite delightful. I have a mix of tech and dev and design stuff coming all the time.

If you’re new to Threads and want to kickstart a timeline somewhat similar to mine, you may find the following people helpful to follow.

I want to caveat that this list is not exhaustive. Several folks I really like to follow are still writing on Mastodon exclusively. But if you’re trying to figure out this Threads thing, these might be some amazing people to get started with.