Considering how Threads is doing (from Meta, with their billions of cash to prop it up and 2 biggest social media sites) we'll need to wait a bit and see, usually in social media it looks like the pioneer takes the cake.
Most Twitter users don't really care much about who owns Twitter; instead, the people who do (pro- or anti-) have outsized voices in the conversation.
My bsky feed is _explicitly_, 100%, only posts I've asked to see.
So use the "Following" tab? It's right there, for that exact purpose.
I can't help but see people who design social media algorithms to be complete sociopaths: they want to control people's communications and butt in with "recommendations" completely unwelcome, instead of just letting the participants drive the discussion themselves.
LiveJournal, Friendster, and Myspace are the reason Twitter and Facebook barely have market share?
… Hrm, not sure about that. See Friendster, Livejournal, MySpace, Digg, etc.