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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by MusketeerX to c/fediverse

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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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[–] notavote 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They did say "X milions of accounts were ACTIVATED in one day", not "created".

[–] AeonFelis 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That number actually seems pretty low now, considering the number of Instagram accounts is already in the billions. Maybe they didn't activate all of them to make it seem more believable?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the didn't launch on the EU yet.