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 that compete with Twitter.
The upcoming app — codenamed P92 — will be Instagram-branded and allow users to log in with their existing Instagram credentials, according to a report by TechCrunch.
The P92 team plans to follow the “fork” approach in the initial product version, with users’ profiles populated with their Instagram account details, such as name, username, bio, profile photo and followers.
According to the product brief, the app will adhere to the company’s current privacy policy, but it will also have a supplementary privacy policy and terms of service that specifically address cross-app
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