Yup. I was having a talk to Claude AI about Threads, and got a reply nicer than I normally have from it. The shortened text by Claude:

What actually drives reach, based on confirmed signals:

1. Early engagement speed matters most — 50 likes/replies in the first 30-90 minutes outperforms 100 over a full day.
2. Replies matter more than likes. Adam Mosseri himself has said if you're serious about growing, you should reply more than you post — replying to others in your niche puts you in front of their audience organically.
3. Images outperform pure text by a wide margin despite Threads being "text-first".
4. Specific, concrete captions beat vague ones [give details, even boring, instead of "cute cat"]
5. Niche consistency matters — Threads groups accounts by recurring topics/keywords into "topical clusters."
6. Ask genuine questions to invite replies.

So some "brigading" in the comments can really be a bonus for us (+ the experience from Reddit).