Darius KazemiJul 14, 2023

The framing of what a Threads account *is* strikes me as a funny thing.

Meta is saying "Threads is the fastest growing app in history with 100M users in five days". This doesn't make a lot of sense when you consider that a Threads account *is* an Instagram account.

If you accept that Instagram has 2 billion active non-EU users, the story could easily be "Only 5% of eligible Instagram users opted in to Threads in five days".

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@darius Yes exactly. Also - if you delete Threads, you lose your Insta account too..

This is why (sadly) nobody will probably migrate from their instance to proper Mastodon.

A lot of people on here don't seem to mention that (?)

Jul 15, 2023 at 2:44amWeb
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Maybe the lack of accounts coming out of Instagram demonstrates people understand this?? We'll know more but he better start rolling out the features.