Summary: Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history.
One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta — a feature that may soon extend to open social media protocol Activity Hub.
In doing so, Threads suggests that an alternative approach to social media, in which user data is portable, interoperable, and not controlled by the platform, may be going mainstream.
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