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0 pointsazinman22y ago0 comments

And yet it isn’t. One is a totally new platform and one already exists. You might use your login from one to enter the other, but they could totally delete just your threads account if they wanted.

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dwaite2y ago

There isn't a Threads account. You upgrade your Instagram account to work with Threads.

It isn't a different platform, specifically because they didn't want to build up yet another social graph from scratch. Your graph in the Instagram app is your graph in the Threads app. This is somewhat akin to how Messenger isn't a different platform from the rest of Facebook.

There may be a future 'downgrade' function, but removing those orphaned threads posts amounts to a partial deletion of your Instagram account. The text that Meta is investigating this is actually in the slide show, but I don't know if they have said anything about what level of commitment they have given, or timeframe they are shooting for.

azinman2OP2y ago

UPDATE users SET threads = FALSE WHERE username = ‘foo’

There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.

dwaite2y ago

> There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.

You are hypothecating a LAMP-style stack where they just need to add a flag to their database table and update all their SQL to ignore data from flagged accounts.

I'm hypothecating architectures where it is substantially more difficult than that, such as heavily cached, event-driven microservices with geographic distribution, data locality, and which attempt to comply with various data retention and privacy regulations.

azinman2OP2y ago

I’m not literally suggesting that as the solution, I’m being illustrative. It doesn’t have to be an impossible to solve problem as they’ve presented it to be.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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dwaite2y ago

There isn't a Threads account. You upgrade your Instagram account to work with Threads.

azinman2OP2y ago

UPDATE users SET threads = FALSE WHERE username = ‘foo’

There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.

dwaite2y ago

> There’s no intrinsic reason it has to be this way other than they built it to be as easy to join as possible.

You are hypothecating a LAMP-style stack where they just need to add a flag to their database table and update all their SQL to ignore data from flagged accounts.

azinman2OP2y ago

I’m not literally suggesting that as the solution, I’m being illustrative. It doesn’t have to be an impossible to solve problem as they’ve presented it to be.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse