No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here
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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here
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Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

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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If Threads decides to be open for federation with non-Meta instances (which is a huge if, although everybody seems to assume it), maybe this decision might lead to European “normies” joining Mastodon instances just to interact with Threads users.

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