Threads has launched to massive interest. Mastodon grows it's active users by 50% in a week. The Dutch government is in the process of launching a Mastodon server.

The news is dominated this week by Meta’s launch of Threads, a new microblogging competitor to Twitter that is quickly catapulting itself towards 100 million users. There is a ton of news about this, with just as many hot takes, opinions and feelings. So for this week’s episode I’m going to limit the focus on Threads to a few aspects. I’m working on another article about this that zooms in on the legal and policy aspects of Threads, such as around the DMA. …