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Comment by tredre3 | Hacker News Reader

Threads.com is a collaborative chat platform where people form groups, exchange content, and chat.

Threads.net is a social media network where people use hashtags, exchange content, and chat.

Do you really not see the similarity and how it could be an issue?

I've worked on projects where we had to rebrand entirely due to a USPTO search coming up with much less similarities with an existing name.

I guess it depends on how much risk you want to take.

Yeah definitely, in recent one the stakeholder very adverse to future risk.

Maybe I’m wrong but I thought I heard Facebook Threads doesn’t support hashtags (one of those things that matters if they connect to the fedi because I just found out hashtags are the royal road to visibility there…)

John Gruber's coverage also says no hashtag support: https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/threads

What they're saying is, they don't see a legal issue. They do understand the names are the same, and are noting that commonplace words often have this issue.

More of an opportunity than an issue. Now they can sell the company to Meta for the domain name instead of simply folding when their Slack replacement fails.

Or change their name or pay for a license or…

Sure, those are both great outcomes for Threads.com. It's hard to see this being a problem rather than an opportunity for them. One wonders if they already do have such a name licensing agreement and just couldn't come to an agreement on buying the domain itself.

>Threads.net is a social media network where people use hashtags

A hash character I guess can be used but they don't do anything.

They will.

Like how URLs work in Instagram posts?

Helping people leave your App isn't the the top of most product manager's goals; even without the managment nightmare. Utilising inherent network effects to aid discovery within your app is the top of most product manager's goals.

Not allowing URLs is neglecting one of the fundamental pieces of the World Wide Web, no matter what product manager's goal is to line is swimming pool with gold.

>even without the managment nightmare

Works in Threads.

Works in Facebook.

Works in WhatsApp.

In fact, can you think of any other Meta property where links don't work, excluding Instagram?

I think the, "managment nightmare" is a boogeyman.

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