I'm currently digging through the code of the #Android#Threadsapp. I can't quite put the finger on why, but the whole thing feels like a rush job. There's several megabytes of test data in there that should not have made it into production and the binary looks mostly like they just dumped the entire #Facebook / #Instagram codebase into #Threads, regardless of what was needed and what is not.
Threads launches today with the promise of working with other services like Mastodon.
Will Meta's new platform live up to the potential of a federated network, or just end up being the Threadiverse?
If it truly federates "we can begin to hope for a real competitive environment... Users find it easier to stay in control, and companies find it harder to exploit people, as you just move somewhere else."