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The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching is biggest integrations yet: a new dedicated feed for fedivese posts, and a way to search for fediverse users inside of Threads, The Verge reported. Starting today, if you’ve turned on fediverse sharing in Threads, there will be
Threads will now let users decide what feed they want as their default when opening the app. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a post, saying that you’ll be able to choose between For You, Following, or any custom feed that you’ve set up. Zuckerburg’s post notes that Threads is “testing” this option and will also make different
Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics. The Verge reported. First, users will be able to search for posts within a specific date range or from a single account — similar to what X’s search allows. Threads is also testing a new trending page in the US that
Automatically disappearing posts on social networks could be handy for users who have a habit of deleting their posts through third-party tools, or if the context of those posts is short-lived. Earlier this month, Threads said it was testing ephemeral posts only as an internal prototype. Now, the company told TechCrunch that it was testing posts that disappear after 24
As Threads has grown to more than 130 million users, one of the major remaining “missing” features users often complain about is the lack of direct messaging abilities. But those missing out on DMs may soon have a new option to message other Threads users, Engadget reported. Meta is starting to test messaging features that rely on Instagram’s inbox but
Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is rolling out its “trending now” feature widely to all users in the U.S. The official rollout comes a month after the app started testing the feature with a select number of users in the country. Trending topics are available on the search page and in the app’s For You Feed, TechCrunch reported. In
Whether or not you’ve been actively using Threads, you may have noticed - thanks to its integration into the Instagram feed - an off-putting shift in the kinds of posts the platform has been recommending over the last few weeks, Engadget reported. At best, you might be seeing tons of content that is of no interest to you whatsoever, or