Meta officially launches Twitter rival Threads. 10 million have joined already

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Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

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It's sad people flee one shitty dystopia for another.

and dont even know it

I know I'm practically begging for downvotes here, but it is also possible that some people are perfectly aware of the tradeoffs, pros, and cons of social media, and have decided that the positives outweigh the negatives. That you have different priorities doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else is stupid or ignorant.

It's ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views, and then it goes "but not like that" in this case.

It's ironic how the Fediverse on the one hand celebrates the fact that anyone can join and instances can all do their own things and hold their own views

Yes, all in contrast to corporate enshittification and algorithmic spyware.

and then it goes "but not like that" in this case.

Yes, because its corporate social media waiting for enshittification with algorithmic spyware.

I have just read elsewhere that they're using the same account as Instagram uses. So if you have an Instagram account, and have done nothing with Threads at all, they're likely still counting you as a Threads user.

tl;dr: They're being misleading.

I'm pretty sure there are far more than 10 million people with Instagram accounts. There's probably a lot more than that in the US alone.

Wasn’t there a statement recently that meta wasn’t doing threads in some regions? Specifically the EU?

Yes, but it's not the case that all but 10 million of Instagram's users are from the EU...