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.

  • Zanderlus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the reminder to delete my Instagram account. Though I’ve never posted anything there, I’ve used it to follow some people.

    Is it too much to hope that all of Meta crashes and burns? It’s infuriating seeing Meta, and corporations like them, harvest all of our information…

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      What I can’t figure is… who sits down and thinks “fuck Elon Musk and Twitter, I’m sick of this bullshit” and then follows that logic with “you know what I need more of in my life? Fuckin’ FACEBOOK, yeah.”

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I think novelty is an unfortunately large part of this. I day unfortunately because I think it’s very lame that we find creating accounts on servers providing the same service as another service we already an account on … interesting.

        “We were promised flying cars and instead got 160 characters”. Well now we’ve got 160 characters … twice?!

        Meaningless superficial cheap FOMO weaponised as advertising fodder. Shameful really.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        They might not be real supporters. They are probably shill accounts forum sliding and doing the same things to control consensus they have done everywhere else.

        • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is so true. I wish there was a will/way to eliminate bots altogether on a platform. The more popular a platform is, the more bots swarm in to sway the opinions of the crowd - political opinions, consumer opinions, you name it. Reddit was lousy with bots. Constant ceaseless opinion farming. What’s to stop Lemmy from becoming just as obnoxious?