Threads a part of Meta’s new Fediverse

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Threads a part of Meta’s new Fediverse

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Technology

July 11

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After the failure of Metaverse, the founder of Facebook is once again dreaming of a new universe called "Fediverse" through Threads, a platform developed by Meta that is similar to Twitter.

Last Tuesday (4/7), Meta announced the launch of Threads, an application designed to compete with Twitter, on the App Store on July 6. Threads is described as

, similar to the messaging feature on Instagram, where users have account names like those on Instagram, and the list of friends is also shared between the two platforms.

However, during the use of this application, the Fortune magazine specifically took note of the term "Fediverse" in the content terms of Threads. It sounds similar to Metaverse,

that led Zuckerberg to change the name of Facebook to Meta. Currently, as Zuckerberg seems to have somewhat accepted the failure of Metaverse, it appears that Fediverse will be the next name in line for the unfinished dream of the Facebook founder.

Fediverse is the term used for independent servers that are interconnected in a linked social network, combining the words "federation" and "universe." Simply put, this concept refers to the idea of

, including third parties, that can share data with each other. Therefore, even though Threads is considered a copy of Twitter, the fundamental difference lies in the text-based messaging and discussion application, as referred to by Meta, which serves as a decentralized platform.

Specifically, similar to other social media applications in the Fediverse, Threads will actually be a collection of separate servers established by users. This is also the approach used by Twitter's competitor, Mastodon. When users create a server and want to send their content to users on another server, those servers become "links" and can communicate resources with each other.