My big issue with starter packs was that I'd follow them, and they'd have some random content creator in it that was tangentially related to the starter pack. Great, that's fine. I don't need the same 12 people giving me news and updates, etc.

The problem was that they would inevitably be on my feed, constantly talking about other stuff I am not interested in, and hardly ever discussing the starter pack subject. Which again, is fine. But I don't want that, I wanted the starter pack subject matter, and get unrelated content. So I just unfollowed all the starter packs.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, you don't want starter packs, you want the threadiverse (obvi). These are individually curated by the community and irrelevant topics are downvoted and/or (hopefully) removed.

[–] 956@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh. They have 2 different purposes in my mind. Here, I want to discuss things and learn specifics or engage in a topic. On Twitter/BlueSky/Mastodon type social media, I'd rather just scroll it and not engage. I want to see the "headlines", and then decide to delve deeper elsewhere if it warrants. Which is why the starter packs didn't work for me, because it consistently served me content I didn't care to see. Here, I'll check out /all just to see what is floating around in other circles.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With how microblog media works I think those packs should have been tags, not accounts

[–] 956@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

That was my thought. I think some of them work that way; I do have one that gets posted to the feed when someone responds ONLY with "overheard", so no extra stuff gets posted. It's pretty funny to scroll sometimes lol.

It just needs some better filtering somehow.

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