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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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[–] Antaeus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is just messed up.

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[–] kioshi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] afraid_of_zombies2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[–] ajf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 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.

[–] peyotecosmico@programming.dev 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...

[–] 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.

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

Shocking

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This seemed obvious the moment they said 10m accounts on launch. People aren't that proactive

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[–] skymtf@pricefield.org 0 points 1 year ago

What fediverse app is this

[–] spiderman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

they can be sued for this right?

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I smell an antitrust lawsuit coming up. Whether we hate Twitter or not, they could have a valid case against Meta here as this shit is anti-competitive as fuck. If Elon is smart enough, and that's a big if, he could seize the opportunity to sue Meta over this and win. To just be able to recycle existing Instagram users gives Meta an unfair advantage over existing microblogging social media platforms.

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