They’re pretty much using Instagram user base to push their own Twitter replacement.
Zuckerberg is a cancer in big tech, he doesn’t create anything, he only destroys and steal your data.
Absolutely appalling. It’s a clear anti-consumer trick to lock you into Meta’s ecosystem. There’s no benefit to the end user at all. It’s just boosting Meta’s numbers so they can sell ad space for more money.
If an existing Instagram user signs up for Threads to try it out, and they decide they don’t like it, they’re stuck with the account forever anyway.
If a new user wants to try Threads, they have to sign up for Instagram too. That way, if Threads doesn’t take off, all those new users at least have Instagram accounts they might use instead.
With Facebook and Instagram, Meta has clearly shown that they’re entirely capable of making separate accounts and linking them together. They could have copied that same model with Threads. It took them more design work to make a worse user experience.
Or they’ll delete your entire art account you’ve been using for over a decade because one user reported you aren’t you. Insta killed my account for “violating guidelines” and impersonating myself apparently. At least I don’t have to deal with Threads now, but R.I.P. my creative drive since then.
This is the dictionary definition example of a win win
As I commented in another thread. From the article: Meta’s supplemental privacy policy states, “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”
I interpret it as that you can’t delete your Threads profile, unless you delete your Instagram account. So it’s not as if you try to delete your Threads account and oopsie your Insta is gone as well… same, but still different.
Not quite what I envisioned by I fucking called it: https://lemmy.world/comment/849710
From the very beginning they were going to make it easy to join. The sinister part is always when you try to leave. If you don’t play by their rules they will take back everything and leave you high and dry. The ActivityPub support was never going to be a two way street. It’s likely a means to siphon fediverse content and drag users back into Meta’s data harvesting.
Brilliant. I usually sign up for everything to claim my username just in case, but I’ll skip this one.
Very suspect behavior. That said, for anyone that ends up deleting threads because they object to Meta’s business practices, their approach to privacy, etc… Keeping instagram would kind of defeat the purpose anyway.
I don’t know, I only have an instagram account so I can open posts/pics that sometimes are linked on a blog or website, and to look at that one cat account I follow when I log in once in a blue moon. No post of my own, no phone app. I don’t believe Meta knows a lot on me just via that. I wouldn’t want to lose the account just because I refuse Threads’ business model though.
I really wish news outlets would quit using click-bait terms like “nuke” in their headlines.
You have it backwards. You can’t get rid of threads without deleting Insta too.
imagine entering a proprietary social in 2023…
Good neeeeeeeeeews everyone! It’s a 2-for-1. Meh, if Meta wants to make it easier for you to quit Meta, then so be it. I unfortunately deleted my instagram account a while back and will not be able to benefit from this deal.
