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‘The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn’t been attempted in a long time’
Social media companies are increasingly super apps that encompass more of what we do online, for better or worse.
The company wants to move past the ‘confusion and awkwardness’ of sharing a name with its main app
