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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Oh no the social network’s new app uses the social network from the old app…

    What did you expect? Honestly, this doesn’t seem nefarious, just a smart way to bootstrap your new product.

    Keep in mind, they technically don’t even have to use Instagram’s internal data to do that, they could have scraped publicly available Instagram / Twitter data to do the same.