I use Instagram primarily to follow quilters, who are primarily older and mostly women. A lot of them are relentless self promotion machines, as you would expect of small business owners who advertise through Instagram, so of course they are creating the new account Instagram has alerted them about. I’d imagine a huge proportion of new Threads users are the same, and their followers get notices about them using the new service. There is no way for Lemmy to do that.

They think they are too big to fail and enough users will stick around up voting repost bots that it will be profitable.

I can remember keeping a book at my desk because my computer could barely run Morrowind and the load screens took forever.