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Threads Is Live

Meta has released a Twitter competitor based on Instagram.

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Taegan Goddard
Jul 06, 2023
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Instagram to launch Twitter rival app Threads on Thursday | The Star

Meta has just officially released Threads — a text-based Twitter competitor based on Instagram.

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I’m hopeful Threads might work for two main reasons:

  1. Instagram has pretty good content moderation. That’s important to keep the Nazis away.

  2. Threads is decentralized and interoperable with Mastodon and other social networks. That means you …

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