this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app [connectedplaces.online/fediverse-re...](

connectedplaces.online

Fediverse Report – #144

Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR

) [Fediverse Report – #144](

connectedplaces.online

Fediverse Report – #144

Newsmast launches news app that combines local news with fediverse integration, and the first Brazilian fediverse conference with WebSocialBR

)

fascinating that Threads claims over 400M monthly active users while only ~21M of US adults claim to have *ever* used Threads So where are the other 380M users located? Taiwan apparently has an active Threads community, but where else? RE:

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