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I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
It seems like it’s going to eventually have activitypub / mastodon support? I’m hoping I can just follow everyone from Threads in my existing mastodon app. (Or from the webui of the instance I use) Lots of instances are anti-meta integration. But imo the protocol is open specifically for this kinda thing. I don’t have to use Facebook’s garbage, but I can still get content from people who do.
If you believe that, I'd like to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. It will eventually have activitypub too!
Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
Opened the app last week and had to click through an accept gate warning me if I keep using "Scraping tools" I'll lose my account.
The only "scraping" I've been doing is copying the direct image links and posting them to slack and my bookmarking service a few times a month.
Insane to me that they're red in the face threatening me to lose my account over having the audacity to just share a direct image link.
Garbage service.
> Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile
with
> Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”
The title seems to imply that a user deleting their Threads profile may more-or-less inadvertently delete their Instagram account. This is not supported by the quote from Meta, and there is no indication that there's any procedure to initiate deletion of the Threads profile which would then trigger the Instagram deletion. An accurate headline would be, for example, «Meta will delete your Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account». Is that shitty user-hostile behaviour from Meta? Absolutely yes — but not that shitty.
So, if the accounts are linked closely to each other, and an Instagram account is a necessity for a Threads "account", are those really "signups" or more like... logins into another view of the same service? These numbers seem overblown.
Which seems like a misstep because now my "Threads" account has 10% of the followers of my IG/Twitter.
People jumping ship from Twitter for this thinking they're going to be treated any better are probably in line for a nasty surprise.
People jumping ship from Twitter for this thinking they're going to be treated any better are probably in line for a nasty surprise.
> Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success".
> But Mr Musk responded: "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram."
If Threads is a fractionally less toxic version of Twitter, it’ll do quite well.
People jumping ship from Twitter for this thinking they're going to be treated any better are probably in line for a nasty surprise.
People jumping ship from Twitter for this thinking they're going to be treated any better are probably in line for a nasty surprise.
The people jumping are from insta and brands. Don't think anyone else cares about this.
Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account
and
Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile
mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.