giancarlostoro 5 days ago

My favorite was that the deal was where Facebook agreed not to import IG into FB. They have merged the two together so much so that if Facebook has a complete outage, so does IG. Not only that, but Facebook "magically" knows when I'm on IG and vice versa.

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transcriptase 5 days ago

Much like when a company is acquired and the execs of the acquisition assure everyone that nothing is going to change.

Until it inevitably and drastically does because those execs no longer have any real power even if they weren’t explicitly lying.

tialaramex 5 days ago

Oh yeah, lots of "First Time?" meme opportunities during acquisition.

granzymes 5 days ago

>deal was where Facebook agreed not to import IG into FB

What deal was this?

captn3m0 5 days ago

This was for WhatsApp

pdpi 5 days ago

> They have merged the two together so much so that if Facebook has a complete outage, so does IG.

If AWS has a complete outage, so do many completely unrelated businesses. As a regulator, "running on the same infrastructure" would be the least of my worries and an acceptable carve-out for a "no integration" clause.

zelphirkalt 5 days ago

Running on separate infrastructure makes it a lot easier to confirm for an auditor, that data is not being merged or used in combination though.

notyourwork 5 days ago

And now I’ve noticed threads permeate IG to cross-pollinate.

alex1138 5 days ago

Also I think if you sign up for Instagram you get Threads lol

Nice account you got there, would be a shame if you deleted Threads and also deletes your Insta

soco 5 days ago

But on my Android I got no Threads. True, IG tries their best to convince me to install it. Maybe I don't have it because my IG was created before times?