Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

  • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fuck Meta and all but this isn’t news. Meta litterally said straight up that they would be doing this before threads ever launched. If you have an instagram account then that is also your threads account. This isn’t some conspiracy it’s exactly what they told everyone they were doing. It’s no diferent than linked accounts for google services.

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    2 months ago

    This happened to me. Joined threads and what do I see? Signal and instantly had a bunch of random accounts follow me.

    I think I’m sticking to Mastodon and Pixelfed.

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    1 year ago

    Does anyone remember Google+? When they tried to make everyone with a YouTube account also have a Google+ account.

    Spoiler alert: it didn’t go well

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      1 year ago

      Which is a pity because the ideas of having “circles” was actually clever. Or at least I thought so back then. I wonder how modern social media would look like if they all implemented that.

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        1 year ago

        Sadly, it was destined to fail. In Diaspora and in Google+.

        The thing is, while people definitely do have different circles, they don’t like to think about these circles in an explicit way.

        Facebook has had something like this for a while now, you can set visibility settings on every post, but again almost nobody uses it.