• Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account.

  • This is mentioned clearly in Meta’s supplemental privacy policy, which many new Threads users failed to read in full.

  • Itty53@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yup. Remember this when they tout how threads “already has millions of users”. They’re all zombie accounts.

    • Jo@readit.buzz
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      1 year ago

      That’s not true. Instagram has 1.6bn users and all can use their Instagram logins to sign in to Threads. The roughly 1% who have signed up already have chosen to activate Threads, it’s not done automatically.