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

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

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

I don't see anything wrong with this

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

So they peer pressure Insta users to use Threads?

[–] beaker 2 points 1 year ago

I assumed this was the case and that any reporting on "users" and the "historical" nature of their short time to 10M users was 100% BS.

I think the strategy is great and I would do the same that they are doing, except I'd leave out the bit where I crowed about reaching 10M users in 7 hour or 100M in a few days. It's too obviously a lie supported by the ability to leverage one network into another.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

That is just messed up.

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[–] peyotecosmico 1 points 1 year ago

Add far I remember they did something similar for Facebook/meta/"insert new name here" back then, I remember someone made a lawsuit.

I'm surprised that people think it would be different...

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

They're so gross lol

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

Not being up on (or caring about) what evil Meta is up to I was wondering how they got 90M users overnight, that splains it.

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

Shocking

[–] lfdev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Holy shit that's why they bundled it in with Instagram? So they can inflate the adoption rate?

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