• 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.

  • Mothra
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    1 year ago

    Wait, does it mean if you already have an Instagram account you also have a threads profile already?

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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.

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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.

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      1 year ago

      Threads is basically a new feature of Instagram, they don’t even talk about it as something that is distinct from it.

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        1 year ago

        Technically Meta already had everything ready for a Twitter functionality. Doesn’t make sense to copy it. Just put together a little differently.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think so, I think they are using OAuth 2.0 to create a threads account based on Instagram credentials.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah aside from instagram login you don’t have to do anything for sign up