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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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[–] YellowtoOrange 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You need to activate the threads account. People are being asked to follow accounts which haven't been activated IE created.

You're missing the point.

[–] o_oli 11 points 1 year ago

So think of it like a 'feature' of Instagram then. You can enable the feature or you can leave it disabled but either way its sharing user data and login information etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'm missing any point. Have you used it? They're owned by the same company. Threads is separate but part of Instagram. Other than the user name being reserved on Threads in case the Instagram user wants to sign up, there isn't an account created. If you try to search the name of any of those accounts in Threads it doesn't come up at all. (Edit: mistyped a word)