Who is surprised?

  • stravanasu@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I get what you’re saying. From my point of view we’re just playing on the semantics of “service” and “app” here. I had indeed the same problem with Google and Hangouts.

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      1 year ago

      I too understand where you’re coming from, but I think it’s an important distinction, not semantics.

      If Meta was simply creating a duplicitous profile for every Instagram user, that would be pretty predatory and misleading.

      However, if that were the case, they would also be bragging about having 2+ billion Threads “users”.

      It also implies that users could interact with these “shadow accounts” even if that person never used Threads, which is not the case.

      As it currently works, if you try to mention a user who is on Instagram but isn’t on Threads, nothing happens, the mention is stripped because it’s not a valid handle.