• krigo666@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Last week, the text-based social media platform reported a record 100 million sign-ups in just five days.”

    LOL The biggest bullshit of the year… Meta just created shadow accounts of all Instagram users, without their knowledge or consent…

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      100 million isn’t that much when it comes to Meta. There’s over 2 billion “active” Instagram users that all were prompted to download the app. That means only 0.005% of Instagram accounts fell for it.

      I have no doubt that at least that many people tried it out. When I went to the Android App store, Meta was paying for a front and center promotion of Threads.

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      1 year ago

      Is there a way to check if a user account exists for my instagram account without logging in?

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        1 year ago

        People who voluntarily tried out Threads is not the claim that was made:

        Meta just created shadow accounts of all Instagram users

        That is a lie.

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      1 year ago

      Not to mention all the spam bots they fail to actually ban after multiple people report.

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        1 year ago

        Bots generate user engagement! Granted, it’s bad engagement, but it also generates jobs for the moderator AI teams