Who is surprised?

  • Sharmat@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, they probably just duplicated the username DB from instagram, so whenever someone starts using Threads, their username will already be “reserved” for them in an empty profile.

    • 312@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s probably even more simple than that - a single DB with a flag for threads_enabled = true/false.

      They made it super clear in advance this is how it would work, the app is called “Threads, an Instagram app”, but as always people froth at the mouth for any opportunity to say “Zuckerberg bad”.

      That’s not some big secret. Everyone knows meta sucks. We don’t need to make stuff up to prove that. They do that on their own.