Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced on Friday that it is working on a new social network whose description indicates it is a potential future competitor to Twitter.
“We are envisioning a decentralized and independent social network that would allow sharing written messages in real time,” the group said in a statement to AFP, confirming information released by the Platformer website.
According to the information, the new application will be designed to be interoperable with other networks of the same type, such as Mastodon, which has gained relative popularity since billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter last October.
Mastodon works via decentralized servers, without central management or decision-making authority.
This announcement comes as Twitter has been losing momentum since being taken over by Elon Musk, who laid off more than half of its employees and made controversial decisions that worried advertisers. The Twitter network is also regularly the victim of technical failures.
The possibility of interoperability that Meta offers is also notable in Twitter’s approach to the subject: in December, Elon Musk briefly blocked the accounts of several users who shared “links” to other social networks, including Facebook, Instagram or Mastodon.
Source: DN
