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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)

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Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future. It is being released in the US and the UK on Thursday of this week as an alternative to Twitter.

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[-] buso@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t normally be a problem and it is not a problem at all since it will be ActivityPub compatible.

[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t like that. They’re going to support it…pull all their consumers towards it, and then replace it with their own proprietary format, killing ActivityPub. Google did the exact same shit

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