Who is surprised?

  • @312@lemm.ee
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    01 year ago

    There’s plenty of things to hate Meta for, but this is inaccurate.

    You log into Threads with your Instagram account. There’s no “shadow account”, you’re logging into a second service with the same account and credentials.

    • stravanasu
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      01 year ago

      I agree that the wording is inaccurate, but some of the essence remains: the second “service” is forced on you. It’s somewhat as if anyone with a Fakebook account also automatically had a Whatsapp or Instagram account, or some permutation of this.

      • @312@lemm.ee
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        01 year ago

        It’s not forced on you. If you don’t download Threads and log in, you’re not on threads.

        This is akin to saying Google Calendar is “forced” on you if you have a Gmail account. They are separate services that use a common credential, you are under no obligation to use any or all of those services.

        • @0x815@feddit.deOP
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          01 year ago

          It’s not forced on you. If you don’t download Threads and log in, you’re not on threads.

          Although that’s technically true, it is clear what Meta is doing here (and even if most may know that the company sucks, I personally feel it is important report on things like that). Meta’s tactics should create a hype making people believe there are substantially more users than there actually are. The mass of people won’t recognize (or even care?) what’s going on I’m afraid.

          • @312@lemm.ee
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            01 year ago

            What is Meta doing here? I’m not clear on what the point being made is.

            If you’re insinuating that they are doing this to artificially inflate user counts, why wouldn’t they be reporting about how there are 2+ billion threads users in the first week?

            They don’t need to manufacture hype - like Meta or not, in the first 96 hours they brought in almost 100 million users. Thats a third of Twitter’s entire active user base, in less than a week.

            • @0x815@feddit.deOP
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              01 year ago

              It seems we agree to disagree. The point I make is pretty clear, and it doesn’t make sense if you repeating your arvuments over and over again.