This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads

posted 1 year ago

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

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5 days ago

This happened to me. Joined threads and what do I see? Signal and instantly had a bunch of random accounts follow me.

I think I’m sticking to Mastodon and Pixelfed.

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