i use primal and so far i think it's very nice very smooth but what i didn't like AT ALL was that when I created my account and it did ask me what my interests were I found myself following a dozen accounts that i didn't know and i didn't consent to follow in any way, so for a social network that claims to be against algorithms i find it worse than other social media apps where they just suggest accounts for you to follow. I had to go to my profile and unfollow them one by one. 

 Thanks for the feedback. We strive to make the onboarding as smooth as possible. We used to display a long categorized list of suggested follows, but that took too long for users to go through while onboarding. 

Note that we are not using any algos for the new suggested follows. We are simply working off the same categorized list; we just let people choose their desired categories. Our list of suggested follows is publicly available btw: 

https://listr.lol/npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg 

 I'm not against suggested accounts but having them auto-followed is a different story. first-time users might feel confused finding themselves following accounts they didn't choose to follow, maybe their content will be the opposite of what they want to see. so yes to suggestions but you have to let people decide who they want to follow.