Since its inception, Meta's Threads has tried to leverage the network effects of its other social networks Facebook and Instagram by experimenting with

Many social media platforms take ideas from each other, and Meta seems to be doing something similar recently. As first reported by TechCrunch, Threads is testing a community groups feature that’s similar to Subreddits and X Communities.

The ‘Loops’ feature may help users follow and engage with specific topics, similar to X’s Communities or subreddits.

Meta's take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor's territory with the development of a communities feature

The feature is known as Loop, and one developer who spotted the reference said that it might be similar to the Communities feature on X, or subreddits … Alessandro Paluzzi first found the feature. Chris Messina appears to have independently spotted it.