So I was in the middle of typing out “I always turn off Windows Defender for this exact reason!”, but I thought better of it and checked… turns out when I reset my computer last I skipped a step in my procedures lol
Thank you for pointing out the obvious! It is almost always helpful!
I’ll never understand this style of social media. Facebook I hate, but kind of get, hearing from people you know. Reddit, was just a big message board. But twitter and its copy cats have zero appeal to me. Following people is just a creepy concept for me.
It used to be really useful for following news and companies. I work in DevOps, and I used to follow AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cloudflare, etc. then I added some Sony/Playstation follows for games and such and it was super handy to see product announcements, downtime status updates for cloud computing platforms, etc.
Then my feed got filled with “you might like” instead of what I was trying to follow, so I switched to a command line “only pull my follows” script and now with the API stuff that’s just useless so I gave up.
Following random celebs and people you don’t know, on the other hand), always seemed creepy.
Twitter started out just following people you know, then famous people got into the mix, then you got to cuss out the POTUS, then Elon bought it and it tanked.
Zuck seems to think that Twitter is just a Facebook feed of famous people when no, your friends were there too.
It’s not creating a “shadow account”, it is literally the same account. Threads is just a different frontend for what already existed with Instagram. And Meta would’ve been stupid, if they wouldn’t have use what they already have.
Oh for sure, but it does make me wonder how accurate the sign up reports are.
Does Threads report people who actually sign up and “claim” their “shadow accounts,” or does it count actual accounts and “shadow accounts?” The former is definitely a more accurate count, while the latter is basically numbers padding.
My understanding, it is reporting people who specifically elect to sign up for Threads using their Instagram account. On instagram profiles, they have been showing a badge with their Threads subscriber number that you only get when you elect to join Threads. This increases sequentially.
The highest number on the badge should give a good indication of how many Instagram users at least “claimed” their Threads account.
It’s not a perfect solution either. There have been plenty of instances where cops “forget to turn on” or “accidently block” their cams. Even cases where, mysteriously, the cams are “accidentally” damaged or the data “corrupted”.
Unfortunately seems like the only defense for these cases is livestreaming police interactions.
Cop unions should be illegal. (All other unions are fine)
Absolutely, and you can generalize that to any sort of requirements are worthless if they don't have as much teeth as the power they are trying to check.
I’ve been posting a photo a day to Instagram for years. It’s an unhealthy habit, but it’s led me to be a little adventurous with color. Anyway glad it worked out this time.
lemmy.world
Hot