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What is Instagram’s Threads app? All your questions answered


Meta launched the Threads app on July 5, a text-based Twitter rival connected to your Instagram account. Here's everything you need to know.

The app launched more than a year ago, but it doesn’t have Twitter-like features such as long video, direct messages, or live audio rooms. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the goal is to “not build yet another inbox and instead let people send threads to other apps.” So if users turn on fediverse sharing, people on other compatible ActivityPub networks like Mastodon can follow them and see their posts.

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