Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is available now

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14 points·GavinAnderegg··7 comments

The web/desktop version seems to be basically read only. Can't reply, sign up or anything. Can't even view a full user profile I think?. No home page either for me.

https://www.threads.net/@hbo

EDIT: I was able to get in at ~19:25 ET.

I'm assuming this was published as an embargo dropped. There was a countdown at https://www.threads.net which ended at 19:00 ET. That said, it doesn't seem to be live just yet, at least for me in Canada. The website is showing a 3D depiction of the logo and I see a "Coming soon" note on the App Store.

I was able to get in by doing these. Not sure if these are necessary:

- Go to instagram app on the App Store. Scroll down to the section where it says other apps from the same developer. There, next to the Threads app, I had the download button. After installing the app I still was not able to open it.

- Once I had the app installed, I clicked through (on twitter) on someone's threads.net link and that kicked off the initial setup of the Threads app for me.

I eventually got a notification from the App Store. I'm not sure if it was just a bit late, or if it's being rolled out over time.

Hmm, still can't see threads account on mastodon though....

They say that it will add fediverse support in future version of threads.

nice

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