Meanwhile.
I’ve seen a lot of doom and gloom about Threads and the fediverse. I don’t personally have a problem with it. More people on the network is IMO better. No algorithmic timeline means you are still following who you want to follow, gatekeeping seems silly.
Threads, Meta’s Twitter clone, starts launch countdown, plus a few details on how it works

Ahead of the app’s launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting...

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@paul So if you log in to Tusky with that can you bypass all of Meta's permissions on their app?

@pixiekat if they implement mastodon client interface* and do not do something like registration only in their app** you can use Tusky or whatever as threads.com client and do not install official Threads clients (ergo it's permission irrelevant for you).
But why do so if you can use any client with tech.lgbt or any other instance and still communicate with threads.com users?

* I see no reason for facebook to do it

** I have no idea does Threads require addition registration or you can just use facebook/instagram login and password without additional actions (i doubt)

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@MrClon @paul Oh I'm not going to use it I was just curious 😊