Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future. It is being released in the US and the UK on Thursday of this week as an alternative to Twitter.
Oh no! Anyways…
Good! Stay out of the EU with your data-stealing apps! 🇪🇺
I’m so glad. I hope it will stay this way. Fuck méta.
Would be nice if they’d stop their other services here too.
And nothing of value was lost.
Eh maybe I would have opened instagram xD
Meta can duck right off. Nobody needs them in the EU
Quack
Imagine being sad about this 🤣
Do you have an alternative link? The page won’t load for me.
Not sure how but the link was weird, this one should work.
Thank you, EU 🫶
Wouldn’t normally be a problem and it is not a problem at all since it will be ActivityPub compatible.
I don’t like that. They’re going to support it…pull all their consumers towards it, and then replace it with their own proprietary format, killing ActivityPub. Google did the exact same shit
I’m really happy about EU having RGPD, Twitter is not the best (even more with Musk) but Meta is like, evil.
If Threads decides to be open for federation with non-Meta instances (which is a huge if, although everybody seems to assume it), maybe this decision might lead to European “normies” joining Mastodon instances just to interact with Threads users.
I’m sad for the people on the other side of the pond :(
Did nobody here read the article? This is sensationalized as hell lol. They aren’t blocking the app, it just hasn’t gone through GDPR approval. They rushed the launch to beat Twitter to a usable product, but it will definitely be released in the EU after they figure all that out.
Just to say that I didn’t edit anything to sensationalise it, the headline is the title.
Yeah of course, definitely agree that the title should match the headline and the clickbaity-ness of it isn’t your fault lol
I hope it doesn’t launch in Australia
