[Meta’s decision to launch Threads pits it against other companies also trying to lure users away from Twitter with alternative social networks.

Mastodon’s open-source decentralized model, which was founded seven years ago, saw a large influx of new users in the immediate aftermath of Musk’s Twitter takeover.]
via https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/instagram-meta-threads-twitter-rival/