Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

  • UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Which is a pity because the ideas of having “circles” was actually clever. Or at least I thought so back then. I wonder how modern social media would look like if they all implemented that.

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      1 year ago

      Sadly, it was destined to fail. In Diaspora and in Google+.

      The thing is, while people definitely do have different circles, they don’t like to think about these circles in an explicit way.

      Facebook has had something like this for a while now, you can set visibility settings on every post, but again almost nobody uses it.