It's come as a shock to many that they can't delete their Threads profile without also deleting their Instagram account.

  • 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.

  • MothraEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

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

    • Itty53@kbin.social
      427·
      1 year ago

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

      • Jo@readit.buzz
        15·
        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.

    • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      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.

      • P1r4nha@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        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.

    • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      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.

    • Yatoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

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