Those guidelines are enforced inconsistently, and Instagram is notorious for disproportionately censoring Black women, plus-size users, and trans and nonbinary people. The guidelines also allow nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures. Instagram forbids nudity, including photos, videos and “some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks.” It makes an exception for female nipples in the context of breastfeeding, giving birth, health-related situations like gender-affirming surgery, and acts of protest. Unfortunately, Threads is incredibly boring and will likely stay that way because it adheres to Instagram’s puritanical community guidelines. Threads is positioned to be a beacon of hope in the midst of Twitter’s excruciating, ongoing implosion. There is no scrounging around for invite codes, or desperately adding yourself to a waitlist like you’re vying for a spot on the last lifeboat off a sinking ship. You don’t have to scour through the rubble of a brand-new social platform to find your mutuals, and you don’t have to learn entirely new features since the interface is nearly identical to that of Twitter’s.Īnd unlike the other text-posting alternatives to Twitter, like Bluesky and Spill, Threads is open to anyone who has an Instagram account. Users don’t have to start from scratch when they sign up for Threads - the app gives users the option to automatically follow everyone they already follow on Instagram.
Though countless text-based social platforms have dazzled users upon launch before fading to obscurity since Elon Musk’s takeover, Threads has the unique advantage of seamlessly integrating with Instagram. With 30 million downloads in less than a day of its launch, Threads is poised to compete with Twitter’s sheer volume of users. The app is dry at best, and at worst, leeching your personal data. Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter clone that launched this week, will always be hindered by its own content guidelines.
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