I deactivated my threads account already but it turns out you can’t delete your threads account *without also deleting your Instagram account* so maybe just don’t sign up!
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Jesus, one more of the very many reasons I hate FB/Insta with a passion. Why folk have been joining in droves is beyond me.
(Sounds a bit smug, not supposed to be)
I immediately uninstalled after seeing the spammy feed it served me. Really prefer the Bluesky vibe eventhough UX wise it’s worse (so slow and feels a bit broken at times)
Here’s hoping that will get better over time. The main thing for me, is what you said. It’s spammy. At least on Bluesky the people here aren’t mega influencers who are obviously being paid to say nice things about Threads.
Good thing I deleted the app before I finished creating my account then. I stopped when I read their privacy policy and realized it was ‘you will have zero privacy.’
muting this thread sorry I am overwhelmed lol, at least nobody here is calling me “misinformation” like over on twitter, here’s a screenshot, good night
i know you're being flippant but that's not a viable option for everyone, especially those of us who, for instance, will have a book to promote next year
It's chaotic. Within minutes I got a ton of account I know to follow, followed them, then tried to find them on the feed. Who are these other people? I want my people. And it's on my phone, though web-based launches tomorrow. I'll check it out on the web-based version, but already not liking it.
that is something ppl will only figure out when they're about to try to deactivate their acc. I don't think linking Threads to Instagram was a good idea, it should be separate medias but, anyways... Zuck being Zuck. he wants everybody in at any cost
Best you can do is deactivate which hides but doesn’t delete everything on the threads side.
You can’t unlink the two, because really they aren’t separate things. All you effectively do when you “sign up” is activate your Threads profile on your instagram account.
Then when you deactivate it, it really should entirely scrap everything related to the Threads profile. Being able to opt in once and then never opting out again is really bad.
Technically you aren’t even opting in if you think about it.
We’re already sharing the data to Meta that Threads takes. I haven’t compared the TOS for the two but I’m sure they’re close enough to make no difference
As to how much data they have on anyone I suppose is down to how much they shared
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(Sounds a bit smug, not supposed to be)
Am I too late? I just read the policy about financial data and it made more overwhelmed.
It doesn’t fully delete your Threads app/data, but you are able to deactivate it and hide it away separately.
(Screenshot of my own, note the fine print in the bottom)
They can't stand not having access to all of you, so they'd rather revoke any and all access you may have had to their services instead.
Threads = (Meta)Manacles
It's like Threads is an opt-in feature that becomes permanent
Incredible
Bullshit.
Thanks for ye olde heads up. 👍
You can’t unlink the two, because really they aren’t separate things. All you effectively do when you “sign up” is activate your Threads profile on your instagram account.
We’re already sharing the data to Meta that Threads takes. I haven’t compared the TOS for the two but I’m sure they’re close enough to make no difference
As to how much data they have on anyone I suppose is down to how much they shared