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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 52 points 3 years ago (5 children)

What I can't figure is... who sits down and thinks "fuck Elon Musk and Twitter, I'm sick of this bullshit" and then follows that logic with "you know what I need more of in my life? Fuckin' FACEBOOK, yeah."

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think novelty is an unfortunately large part of this. I day unfortunately because I think it’s very lame that we find creating accounts on servers providing the same service as another service we already an account on … interesting.

    “We were promised flying cars and instead got 160 characters”. Well now we’ve got 160 characters … twice?!

    Meaningless superficial cheap FOMO weaponised as advertising fodder. Shameful really.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They might not be real supporters. They are probably shill accounts forum sliding and doing the same things to control consensus they have done everywhere else.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    This is so true. I wish there was a will/way to eliminate bots altogether on a platform. The more popular a platform is, the more bots swarm in to sway the opinions of the crowd - political opinions, consumer opinions, you name it. Reddit was lousy with bots. Constant ceaseless opinion farming. What's to stop Lemmy from becoming just as obnoxious?

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