threads.net

Threads

Who runs Threads, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest microblogging social network alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of facebook.com
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Couldn’t check
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
mastodon.social

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Threads

Threads threads.net

Wikidata: social networking site operated by Meta Platforms

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
facebook.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience

02 · Privacy

What Threads tracks

We couldn’t read threads.net’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so we can’t say what it loads.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Threads

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Threads, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

We can’t read threads.net’s homepage (robots.txt disallows our crawler), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.

  1. 01
    mastodon.social Top 10K English No trackers

    Mastodon.social

    The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.

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  2. 02
    x.com Top 100

    American social networking service founded in 2006

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  3. 03
    Bluesky bsky.app Top 1K No trackers

    Bluesky

    Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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  4. 04
    twitter.com Top 100

    American social networking service founded in 2006

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  5. 05
    Weibo weibo.com Top 1K

    Chinese microblogging website

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  6. 06
    Instagram instagram.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Instagram

    Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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  7. 07
    Tumblr tumblr.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Tumblr

    Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.

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  8. 08
    Farcaster farcaster.xyz English No trackers

    Farcaster

    A decentralized social network

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  9. 09
    joinmastodon.org English No trackers

    Mastodon - Decentralized social media

    Learn more about Mastodon, the radically different, free and open-source decentralized social media platform.

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  10. 10
    Cara cara.app

    artist social media app

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  11. 11
    mstdn.social English No trackers

    Mastodon 🐘

    A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

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  12. 12
    kwai.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Make Everyone Shine

    Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.

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  13. 13
    Musical.ly musical.ly Top 10K

    former Chinese social media service

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  14. 14
    TikTok tiktok.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    TikTok - Make Your Day

    video-focused social media platform

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  15. 15
    pinterest.com Top 100

    American photo sharing and publishing website

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  16. 16
    Reddit reddit.com Top 1K

    American social news aggregation website and discussion portal

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  17. 17
    Jianshu jianshu.com

    internet company

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  18. 18
    Pikabu pikabu.ru Top 1K Russian 1 tracker

    Горячее – самые интересные и обсуждаемые посты | Пикабу

    Пикабу – это уютное информационно-развлекательное сообщество, где любой желающий может опубликовать пост. Истории из жизни, свежие шутки и мемы, познавательные статьи, забавные фото и видео, интересные комментарии. Если другим пользователям понравится ваша история, ее увидят сотни тысяч людей.

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    Triller triller.co No trackers

    American video-sharing and social networking service

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  20. 20
    Mixi mixi.jp Japanese 1 tracker

    ソーシャル・ネットワーキング サービス [mixi(ミクシィ)]

    mixi(ミクシィ)は、日記、写真共有、ゲームや便利ツール満載のアプリなど、さまざまなサービスで友人・知人とのコミュニケーションをさらに便利に楽しくする、日本最大規模のソーシャル・ネットワーキングサービスです。

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Threads’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Threads uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Threads adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
31 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Threads’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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