The Core

Hopefully this works and someone does reddit next. My feed there is currently mangled and moldy.

Checking out kbin.social led me to https://join-lemmy.org, which is another federated platform Redditors seem to be checking out.

I have to confess all this Fediverse stuff gives me a headache.

FB twitter rival = 'Threads'

launch day:
Threads already has over 95 million posts
Threads Surpasses 30M Signups

Elon Musk, November 15, 2022:

"I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592569305941807104?lang=en

July 5, 2023:

"Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms ("Meta") has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property. Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees... Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta's copycat 'Threads' app...."

Alex Spiro, counsel to Elon Musk and Twitter
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs/production/27109f01431939c8177d408d3c9848c3b46632cd.pdf
linked from https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/twitter-accuses-meta-of-stealing-trade-secrets-for-its-new-threads-app.html

Currently near the top of the front page of reddit.  Very accurate.  Be sure to look closely at Zuck....

Threads : comics

https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/14t3pup/threads/

>>journalists,

People usually underestimate this. I hear people say all the time that they don't care about Twitter because they don't care what someone had for coffee this morning. They don't realize that all the news they consume, especially print journalism, is heavily influenced by Twitter.

And I have to say that Twitter is one of the best sources of news on exercise physiology. Many of the absolute top shelf researchers in the world regularly post everything from hot takes to their latest peer-reviewed papers.

Meta's Threads app is a privacy nightmare, may not launch in the EU -euronews