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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Oh no the social network’s new app uses the social network from the old app…

    What did you expect? Honestly, this doesn’t seem nefarious, just a smart way to bootstrap your new product.

    Keep in mind, they technically don’t even have to use Instagram’s internal data to do that, they could have scraped publicly available Instagram / Twitter data to do the same.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. Even people HERE (who are totally computer experts because they use the internet and sign up for betas…) complain about how “confusing” it is to make an account for mastodon.

      This handles that for you. Have an instagram account? your threads is just an opt-in to activate.