Fediverse

In fairness, it's pretty smart, IMHO: one of the big difficulties in getting a social site started is getting a critical mass of people together to sustain conversation. Facebook already has plenty of Instagram users, so giving them all access to Threads seems like a pretty good way to bootstrap Threads.

Threads isn't "successful", they just happen to own the social graph. Why can't people see this?

Is this not basically what google and Microsoft do with their stuff, minus the subscribe even though they aren't there yet bit? It's your meta account, regardless if you're using that particular feature?

So it's made of mostly fake accounts from Instagram. That has to be the shadiest thing I've seen from a social media app. Just making "shadow" accounts from other social media apps to artificially boost it's analytics.

In other news, Facebook Messenger somehow knows I have a Facebook account!

Yet another example of meta being extra fucking creepy

Copy, paste, succes

They already advertised this in a way though.

I think one of the links for IG is Threads.instagram.con

That alone made me think they’re going to end up finding a way to merge the two or make them paired.

As horrible as this obviously is, it's also quite clever.

i knew accounts were being automatically created and thats why i don't believe the numbers