Some of the walls around Meta’s Threads app are coming down

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The new kid on the block of social media, Meta’s Threads, hit 200 million active users in August. When it launched in the summer of 2023 as a rival to the platform formerly known as Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into the so-called fediverse. This “federated universe” is the most prominent example of a decentralized social network in which users can join any affiliated platform and interact with content from all the others. Recently, Meta took some steps to integrate Threads into this ecosystem, and Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, has been following the developments.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist,
0:08.3	I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.7	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change.
0:22.5	This could be the warmest year on record.
0:24.6	Climate change is here.
0:25.7	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.5	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.6	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
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0:53.7	Meta promised to make threads a more open social media app.
1:01.5	And it's actually happening.
1:04.0	From American public media, this is marketplace tech.
1:06.7	I'm Megan McCarty Carino. The new kid on the block of social media threads hit 200 million active users in August.
1:25.0	When it launched in the summer of 2023, as a rival to the platform formerly known as
1:29.8	Twitter, Meta said the app would eventually be integrated into something called the FEDiverse.
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