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Threads

Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

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Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
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Features

  1.  Support for @mentions
  2. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  3.  Dark Mode
  4. Instagram icon  Instagram integration
  5.  User Profiles
  6.  Support for Multiple threads
  7.  Multiple Profiles
  8.  Multi Account Switching

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Top Negative Comment
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Threads offers nothing above Twitter, as Twitter has more users and is not an echo-chamber like Threads.

Threads offers nothing above Mastadon, as Mastadon is decentralized and open-source.

You might like Threads if you don't care whatsoever about your privacy (which I heard is the reason why it's not even allowed in Europe at the moment).

If you trust the Zuck, use Threads. If not, stick with the tried and true.

Goldmaster
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This is like Mastodon with Facebook spying.

spame
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THIS IS SPYWARE, DON'T USE THIS.

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Worse version of Twitter More spying Facebook

koval
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Blocked from federation with many Fediverse instances after announcing that it will have ability to federate. Nobody needs this, this is another privacy risk app owned by Meta.

Twitter is a waste of time. Mastodon & Pleroma are alternative, Lemmy for reddit, Peertube for Youtube. Don't believe those quacks about anything. Take your web life to your hands.

arhabjb434
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Owned by ((Meta)) Stay away from it.

kurifoxen
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Huge Privacy Risk with it wanting access to almost all of your phone settings and permissions

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What is Threads?

Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app

Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things — or build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world.

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 1.4
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Malay
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Tagalog
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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