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Ahahahahaha they’re such amateurs. There’s no way to delete a Threads account without deleting the entire Instagram account. 
Before you create a #Threads account you should know that you can’t delete it without nuking your entire Instagram account.
Yeah yeah, everybody. You deleted your Insta a long time ago. That’s not the point. The point is lock-in and abusive behavior to consumers that is already illegal in some places and should be illegal everywhere.
Normal people would never assume that just signing in to a new app with your Insta credentials would mean you can never remove yourself from that new app without also removing yourself from Insta. This is abusive and manipulative behavior from a company with a long track record of abuse and manipulation and I think they should be held accountable for it.
@fraying Do you have to have an Instagram account to have a Threads account?
@fraying Thanks for letting me know. I have zero interest in an instagram account so I guess I'm not joining threads.
@fraying no wonder they’re banned in the EU
@fraying This just proves that Zuckerberg got his butt kicked a lot in grade school.
@fraying ah. Can see why they are not EU ready
@coin well duh, it’s a separate app
@fraying Excellent.
@fraying sounds like this whole thing is starting to fray apart. It’s becoming a bit a knotty problem. We should wind this whole thing up.
@fabricatus @fraying Absolutely. Unless they find a way to knit it back together.
@fraying If you're like me and never used your Instagram account for anything, this is not a big deal. : )
@fraying yeah, I had nuked my ig account back in 2016, along with my fb acct. So to set up threads, I had to create a new ig, and I despise ig
I am likely to nuke both threads and ig within the month, because meta never fails to remind me how awful they are
@fraying well this sucks. Guess I'm going to have to nuke my insta account at some point.
@fraying that’s a feature not a bug!
@fraying One dollar - is entrance, two dollars - is exit. So Meta 
@fraying If you've just gone on to have a look and never actually post anything, does that matter all that much? Obviously a different story if for some reason you've been on and told your life story...!
@_jpmh_ yes it matters. It’s your identity. In public.
@fraying such clowns. 
@fraying I would call this to be a feature :)
@fraying Ew, why? Is he really trying to make sure nobody gets off Threads? I use Instagram a lot for me an my friends.
Another reason why I'm never going on there.
@fraying
The irony is rich...
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_1st. Seems like a "Win-Win-Situation" 
@fraying The only good thing coming out of this is I'll be able to follow some of my favourite artists from the comfort of Mastodon once it's federated; I'm sure alot of them will join Threads with what Twitter's been doing
@fraying I was going to say "you say that like it's a bad thing" but I see I'm not very original. Story of my life.
@fraying Did anyone, really: ANYone think the Zuck's META would behave otherwise? Really? Still after all these years? C'mon...
META's aim was, is and will forever be to aggregate personal data. The more, the better. If there's a way they can get their filthy fingers on your data directly with a profile served on a silver tray, including linking to other profiles, they will do it no matter the cost.
Of course they'll make it "as hard as possible" (best: impossible) for anyone to "delete" an acc.
@fraying Man kann ihn aber deaktivieren.
Aber löschen ist klar, wenn es nur ein Account für beides ist.
@fraying very good reason to delete your Instagram account! #JoinPixelfed 
@fraying there's something weirdly dystopian about this.
@fraying yep saw this. Made a separate insta so I could nosey around threads and not be stuck with it.
@stealthradek @fraying As expected...
@fraying Yikes! One reason not to go over there...
@fraying What? Have they neglected to have the procedure nuke one's Fakebook account as well? Too bad!
@fraying gross; thanks for pointing this out
@fraying LOOOOOL, didn't even know they use Instagram account for that. How foolish. Imagine creeps getting in your Threads and discovering the photos of you before even talking.
@fraying bloody hell!
@fraying didn't google try this with the g+ it forced on YiuTubers?
Possible that I misread some badly worded texts back then.
@fraying Any why the hell only once a week
@fraying Threads is also banned in the EU over privacy issues.
@fraying stay away from Suckerberg
@fraying I don't like insta in the first place. it feels like a wasteland. nobody ever clicks on links in there, etc. I asked to be on bluesky months ago but they are being snobs.
@fraying I will say, that I have tons of websites that I still have an account for because they never offered me a method to delete my account once I signed up. Definitely amateur-hour, but not unprecedented. :)
@fraying It's obvious to me that they weren't ready to deploy, but the bosses said "Ship it anyway."
@noysh surprise is not required for outrage
@fraying I would never suggest that it is.
@fraying Sorry to be a Late Louis about this, but does this mean you can’t join Threads without an Instagram account?