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Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer’ App Is Coming (www.nytimes.com)
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Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, teased a new app called Threads that is set to take on Twitter for real-time digital conversations.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You don’t want Meta pushing Mastodon into the mainstream. That will mean most Mastodon users are on Meta’s instance and then they’ll just follow the playbook to kill Mastodon as an open source project by embracing it, extending it, and then extinguishing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish