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Five months after its launching in July , Meta ’s social networkThreadsis now finally useable to people living in the European Union .
In aposton Threads , Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is opening up thread to more country in Europe . “ Today we ’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe . Welcome everyone 👋 , ” he wrote .
The Threads.net website has a “ Use without a profile ” mode , which does n’t require users to lumber in through Instagram . While users can look at posts through that musical mode , they wo n’t be able to respond to , like or repost them .
If you are using Threads in the EU without any visibility , you will see a exclusive algorithmically populated provender . you may also explore for accounts , but seemingly not for post .
At launch in July , the caller restrict accession to the Modern societal internet in the EU to become compliant with various rules of the axis . Users were n’t able-bodied to download the app to get at the societal web . And , at that time , Threads did n’t even have a web interlingual rendition to approach office through URL .
In July , days after ribbon ’ launch , Meta had to take“additional ” footstep to prevent EU - based usersfrom using a VPN to get to the societal internet .
The official launch comes after The Wall Street Journal ’s report last month that betoken thatMeta design to found Threads in the EU in December . Last week , Threads placeda countdown timeron its home page pointing toward a December 14 launching in the region .
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During Meta ’s Q3 earnings call , Zuckerberg said thatThreads has less than 100 million monthly fighting user . The societal connection ’s launching in the EU will help the company cross that home run .
On Wednesday , Zuckerberg announce that Threadshad bulge experimenting with ActivityPub integration . This way , the posts in the beginning published on the Meta - owned social web could appear on compatible decentralised networks such as Mastodon .
