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Threads is Instagram. Instagram is Facebook. Facebook is Meta. Meta is Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook was complicit in a literal genocide.
Meta is a surveillance capitalist that exploits you for profit.
Mark Zuckerberg straight up called you “dumb fucks” for trusting him.
What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes continue to fuck people over?
@aral Meta allowed Instagram users to use Threads as well. If a Gmail user starts to use Google drive, is that a new Google Drive user? So is Meta really attracting new users to Threads? I would think that mostly existing Meta users tried out Threads.
@duco Trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists don’t need free advocates, Duco, they have enough paid ones.
@aral true, but I haven't seen an advocate answering your posts, so why are you mentioning that? 
@duco You made one possible case in your post, which, if accepted at face value (not that I believe it would be given that it is a separate product – if it wasn’t why would it need to have a separate name/have different features/exist separately to Instagram?), could enable Meta to sidestep the antitrust regulation (“it’s not a different product so we are not using our monopoly position anticompetitively”).
My point was that that’s the sort of argument an advocate would make.
@aral what? I have not written anything like that. Gmail and Google Drive are different products. But if you are customer of one it's easy to use the other one as well. So my argument was, that Threads is overhyped. The media celebrates them, that they gained 10 Millionen new users in short time, but in reality, that are existing users. It's easy to switch, so they have taken a look, nothing more. Also doesn't mean they will keep using that product.