ITT: no one who actually went through the sign-up process. It's like a 3 step process. Eventually you get brought to a screen that asks if you want to follow all of your current followers on Instagram. You can choose yes or no to all the people you currently follow, or you can individually select who you want to follow in Threads the people you follow on Instagram. If you select anyone that has not yet activated their Threads account it literally tells you that nothing will happen for now, but if and when the user activates the account, you will follow them if they are public or it will request to follow them if they are private.

There's no magic happening here. There's no shadow accounts...you use the SAME login for Instagram and Threads. They obviously know when you activate your threads account and it will just show the list of users who have already completed the signup and requested to follow you

[–] SafetyGoggles@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We were armchair warriors on Reddit. Now, we are armchair warriors on Lemmy. insert spidermen pointing fingers at each other meme here

[–] TnSb@lemmy.beckmeyer.us 1 points 1 year ago

spidermen

don't see that pluralized everyday, heh

[–] mxd2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Now I understand, thanks for explaining. I think it's just the logical thing to do, it's just the screen when someone registers on threads and doesn't mean it creates a shadow account, it'd be more complicated actually

These people should stop believing so blindly.