🎧 Show Notes:
This week on Style & Stitches, we hold our first-ever public hearing — and Threads is on trial.
Two year after its explosive debut, Meta’s Threads has gone from Twitter clone to 300-million-user platform, even federating with the open Fediverse. But the question remains: Do we really need Threads — or does Threads mostly serve Meta?
In this episode, you’ll hear testimony from all sides of the digital courtroom:
👤 The Users – craving calm, but skeptical of clones
🧠 Meta – laying out its billion-user vision
💼 The Advertisers – seeking reach and brand safety
🛰 The Fediverse – pushing back against Big Tech
🎙️ We weigh platform longevity, centralization vs decentralization, user experience, and the subtle (and not-so-subtle) motivations behind Threads’ growth.
👀 Plus: Why Threads’ success may depend not on what it is — but what Twitter no longer is.
This podcast is based on this newsletter issue of Style & Stitches:
🧵 Who Really Needs Threads?
🕕 It’s 6:00 p.m. on a Saturday in Berlin. In New York, it’s just past noon — 12:00 p.m., lunchtime chatter and weekend plans. In LA, it’s a slow 9:00 a.m. — coffee brewing, sunlight creeping in.
