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How is Instagram’s Threads going to work, anyway?
With Meta’s Twitter competitor set to launch in just a few days time, there are still a lot of questions about how it’ll work. 9to5Google has dug through its APK to try and find some answers.
One interesting point: although Threads is built on the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon and others, it doesn’t look like it’ll be cross-compatible at launch.
Update: When Threads was briefly viewable on the web, a post by Adam Mosseri was visible that confirmed it would not include ActivityPub support on day one.
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