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Nikita Bier@nikitabier · Oct 17, 2026

Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X. When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by…

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The author initially viewed Threads as a threat to X, but reconsidered after noticing that Meta's aggressive promotion actually benefited X by driving toxic users to Threads and Bluesky, effectively serving as an anti-abuse filter that left X as a more positive platform for discussing innovation and the future.

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    Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X. When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5: You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app. However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening: It was strengthening X. If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet. But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app. Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet. And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.

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