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[–] krigo666@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago (23 children)

"Last week, the text-based social media platform reported a record 100 million sign-ups in just five days."

LOL The biggest bullshit of the year... Meta just created shadow accounts of all Instagram users, without their knowledge or consent...

[–] Master@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is there a way to check if a user account exists for my instagram account without logging in?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

people reported already having followers before ever using the platform, meaning all people automatically had an account created for them. that (and many other things) is also very legally problematic in the EU which is why the service isnt available here.

[–] TerryCustard@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Sole benefit of Brexit identified. We get to hand over our data to meta before you guys. It’s all been worth it.

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