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Thread as in Twitter from Facebook? Or is that another Thread?
Thread is a Smart Home protocol. It's like Zigbee and Z-Wave but different. Hopefully it's actually going to become the real winner in the smart home world along with Matter.
The only Matter devices I’ve seen so far don’t support Thread, but work over WiFi.
Wifi is a bit of an odd choice IMO. It's not a great smart home device protocol.
If you want to support a lot of devices in a dense apartment building with wifi you pretty much want everybody to have MU-MIMO capable access points and IoT gear. Otherwise you're hogging spectrum.
(It's not like other protocols aren't also affected, but at least they don't compete with people's internet traffic)