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Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interope...

 1 year ago
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Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon

P92 team wants to use data of all Instagram users regardless of their participation in the new platform being planned by Meta, according to sources

Signage outside Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California. - Bloomberg

Signage outside Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California. - Bloomberg

Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is hashing out a plan to build a standalone text-based content app that will support ActivityPub, the decentralised social networking protocol powering Twitter rival Mastodon and other federated apps, people familiar with the matter told Moneycontrol.

The app will be Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials, they said. Moneycontrol has seen a copy of an internal product brief that elaborates on the functioning and various product features of the app.

To be sure, it’s not clear whether this app, codenamed P92, is still at an idea-stage or the development has begun on the app. A source close to the development said that it is still a work-in-progress.

Hours after Moneycontrol broke the story, Meta has confirmed the development in a statement

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