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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by rchaud »

Karellen wrote: post #132

OK, I'm just old and don't understand the draw of walled-garden social media, but why do people need different walled gardens for (micro)blogs, pictures, and video? Or, why doesn't Meta make the Facebook platform better at doing the things that Instagram and now Threads do, instead of creating separate platforms for each? If the goal is to get people to sign up and connect with each other, doesn't network theory tell…

> why do people need different walled gardens for (micro)blogs, pictures, and video

10 years ago, Facebook was where young people would post PG-rated pics (family members in the network). IG would be where they'd post themselves acting stupid. 20 years ago, they'd have used Facebook for this, because it was restricted to university students, no real risk of leakage to the outside world.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by rchaud »

samwillis wrote: post #18

its clear Meta are trying quite hard to piggyback Threads off the more palatable brand of Instagram rather than Facebook. However ultimately it's all still the same company, the same data mining and ad/influencing platform. It's an interesting strategy, the app on the Apple App Store is published by "Instagram Inc" rather than Meta, prominently named as "Threads, an Instagram App". They could have launched it as a co…

People also associate Meta with "metaverse", aka failure.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by rchaud »

grishka wrote: post #114
ssl232 wrote: post #2

People jumping ship from Twitter for this thinking they're going to be treated any better are probably in line for a nasty surprise.

There's going to be ActivityPub federation. You'll be able to have it your way, especially without the forced recommended posts in the feed, as soon as it launches.

AP federation just means you can spam your posts outside the Threads walled garden, eventually. It doesn't guarantee anything about how the native client will choose to show posts.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by rchaud »

janalsncm wrote: post #58
Emma_Goldman wrote: post #22

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 assume they wanted to ship ASAP and didn’t want to build something on every platform at once. They’re capitalizing on Twitter’s dumpster fire, what’s important is getting a product out there that 1) replicates basic Twitter functionality and 2) millions of people can easily access.

I assume they did it because they consider web browsers to be a hindrance to their tracking panopticon.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by safety1st »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #33
safety1st wrote: post #16

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…

> Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything 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 h…

Oh that's interesting. Occasionally I use the Firefox inspector to view an image directly. I don't have the eyes of a 20 year old anymore and Instagram doesn't have a full screen button or any other way to enlarge an image.

Maybe they're picking up on that somehow and getting ornery about it.

IG was an app before they were a website and they have never embraced the open architecture of the web, nor been entirely comfortable with the browser as a user agent.

That raises another interesting topic, the US DoJ is becoming increasingly aggressive about applying the Americans with Disabilities Act toward websites. I wonder how well IG complies with the relevant standards like WCAG. Probably not well. We have noticed that any website which implements a lot of anti-user features tends to be extra bad in terms of accessibility for the disabled. I wonder if we will at some point see a Big Tech like Meta start to come under fire from the US government because their user-hostile features are also hostile toward the disabled and/or this results in them skirting ADA compliance.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by somsak2 »

CaptWillard wrote: post #131
Mordisquitos wrote: post #34

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…

How the IG profile gets "nuked" is really a side point. The relevant bit is the completely non-intuitive (and one could assume unnecessary) marriage of the two profiles.

threads has always been heavily advertised with its Instagram integration. the app is called "threads, an Instagram app" and the onboarding flow itself is based on your existing insta follows. you can disagree with this strategy but it's definitely not unintuitive or unnecessary, they make it extremely clear

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by basch »

CaptWillard wrote: post #131
Mordisquitos wrote: post #34

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…

How the IG profile gets "nuked" is really a side point. The relevant bit is the completely non-intuitive (and one could assume unnecessary) marriage of the two profiles.

There is no threads account. There is no way to make a threads account. You sign in with ig. Threads really appears to be a subset of barebones and stripped down ig. Calling it a marriage of accounts seems misleading, it’s really just another Instagram client with rebooted follow list, that only lets you see posts from the new client.

The article title is absolutely written in a misleading and inflammatory way to sort of imply, without outright lying, that someone might run into a screen that causes them to accidentally delete their Instagram account. (I get a different title in yc and tc, not sure if tc is showing multiple headlines to different people depending on factors.)

The “The discovery of this stipulation has surprised many users” line in the article is one of those staples of modern journalism where they take a couple tweets or threads now, and make them out to be prevailing sentiment. Cite your sources on who is surprised TechCrunch.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by somsak2 »

lionkor wrote: post #81

A family member of mine had 4000+ posts of their art on their instagram, with quite a few followers, and one day the account just got nuked. That's it, not even a message beyond "broke policies".

were they paying for their account? you can't expect much if you're not a paying customer.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by somsak2 »

Hamuko wrote: post #83
meepmorp wrote: post #21

So, when is BlueSky finally getting out of beta?

Might take quite a while. Bluesky is currently only at 266k registered users and there were already some scaling issues when Twitter introduced the rate limits. Although I think they now have improved the way that the service can be scaled up based on demand.

just drop a failwhale in for that true early Twitter experience

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by somsak2 »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #104

This creates an interesting dynamic. 1. You've trapped people who don't want Threads on Threads, where they can complain about it. 2. And meanwhile people curious about Threads can't try it because they don't want to be stuck having it. Let's see how it works out.

you're not trapped, you can deactivate a threads account without impact on Instagram
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