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