• Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is reportedly creating a separate text-based content app that will support ActivityPub — the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Mastodon and other decentralized apps.
• The upcoming app — codenamed P92 — will be Instagram-branded and allow users to log in with their existing Instagram credentials.
• The minimum viable product (MVP) version of the app will include features such as tappable links in posts with previews, user bio, username, verification badges, images and videos that can be shared.
Meta Creating Decentralized Text-Based Social Network
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is reportedly creating a separate text-based content app that will support ActivityPub — the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Mastodon and other decentralized apps. The upcoming app — codenamed P92 — will be Instagram-branded and allow users to log in with their existing Instagram credentials.
Privacy Policy & Terms Of Service
The product brief states that the app will adhere to the company’s current privacy policy but it also have a supplementary privacy policy and terms of service specifically addressing cross-app data sharing.
Features On App
The minimum viable product (MVP) version of the app will include features such as tappable links in posts with previews, user bio, username, verification badges, images and videos that can be shared. It will also have functionalities such as followers and likes, but it is uncertain whether commenting and messaging features would be included in the product’s first version.
Resharable Content For Business & Creators
The development team is also discussing the possibility of allowing content to be reshared like Twitter but only for business and creator accounts. The MVP would integrate a rights manager for first-party content from the beginning but not third-party content from other apps or servers.
Twitter Rival Platforms
Technology companies & startups have been looking to take advantage of growing trend of Twitter users seeking alternative platforms. In recent months several rival platforms such as Mastodon , Post .news & T 2 have either launched or gained traction in their efforts to attract these users