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Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows (newsie.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i am begging fedi users to understand that threads and instagram use the same account

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this point it's just willful ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am kind of disheartened at the amount of people that do not understand how this works and just scream "Meta = bad".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s just that users don’t like systems where you have to opt out by default. Like you used to have to opt out of shitty marketing emails after a purchase, but then we changed that to opt in and everyone is happier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess it's a god thing you have to opt in to Threads, huh?