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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MusketeerX@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] arrgh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

yuck!

[-] kioshi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see anybody posting there after the first day, save for brand and meme pages

[-] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

So they peer pressure Insta users to use Threads?

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I don't see anything wrong with this

[-] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.

[-] lfdev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Of course that's why they had so many new accounts so fast! And that's why removing the Threads account also deletes your Instagram one! No way a bad app like that, missing the basic features (front what I've read in reviews), would have so many users so fast!

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[-] rovingnothing29@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Shocking