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Are they choosing the names on purpose to mess with the fediverse vocabulary? Thread, when they are part of the twittoverse but not the threadiverse and now Loop like the TikTok-like federated social media from PixelFed...
I would say they probably are, but it's way more likely than not that this is intentional. Why call communities loops? What about a community makes it a "loop"? It doesn't make sense, unless they're deliberately trying to cause confusion with fediverse terminologies.
We could mess back. We cannot influence much their userbase but we could make sure to stick to our vocabulary and rename Meta's thing. For example, Thread should be rename MMT (Meta's Microblogging Tool) and Loops, their "communities" Bubbles.