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Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads profile also terminates the Instagram account.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

I literally just deleted my account . Fuck threads, IG, FB, Meta and Zuck.

Nuke it on your own ! Much more satisfying!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Wow, look at all the nothing I'd lose!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I smell an anti-trust lawsuit in their future.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unfortunately found the same thing out too when I closed my AWS account and lost my regular Amazon account. Took quite a long time for support to help undo that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is... good to know

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Society: I accept your terms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Throw in your Facebook account and you have a deal. One stop shop to purge your data out of the company formerly known as Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You are not purging the data tho... They just cut you off lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My guess is it's a bug being described as a feature, but it's still really bad. Fuck Zuck!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This will in no way cause consumers to become angry and absolutely will not cause a giant headache and back pedaling for Meta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Threads uses your Instagram account. I they aren’t two seperate things, it’s a single account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Now we need another new term to describe this latest stupidly ugly dynamic, when corporations don't simply enshittify their social media sites but then actually retaliate against users who try to defy them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That all surprisingly sounds reasonable.

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