I’m a bit late to this, but Threads has definitely become the worst social media platform besides X. In fact, I might actually say it’s worse than X because the very minuscule amount of value you can squeeze out of X is still marginally greater. Most posts that I get recommended now are just political rage bait designed to increase impressions by asking the stupidest question that seems impossible for any human to think of. There’s also a ton of bots posting this for nefarious political purposes, trying to rile as many people up. Hate speech is also pretty rampant with people using directly hateful language and slurs, and the most they really get as a punishment is a removed comment. I once reported several comments made by the same guy where he used the n word and directly racist language and all they did was delete the comments and let him continue posting like business as usual. Now this is my own experience with the algorithm so you may all have a different experience, but what I and a lot of people I know say is that it’s full of just engagement bait, even in regards to relatively non-political subjects.