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Do you have any thoughts on why they attached to the IG graph and not the FB graph?

Maybe I'm in a bubble, IG seems very low text, low drama, low politics. Not very Twitter-y

I think the IG graph is more similar to the Twitter graph than the FB graph. Also, IG has much more of a “cool factor” which they’re hoping Threads will inherit.

I follow my grandparents on FB, and I don’t necessarily want that on my Threads.

> I think the IG graph is more similar to the Twitter graph than the FB graph.

Very much so: Facebook is unlike Instagram and Twitter in that its relationships are bidirectional.

This is a good point that I didn't think of until now. Bi-directional "connections" in the style of Facebook and LinkedIn feel very antiquated now.

There’s drama on IG, but thankfully not among the people you follow.

Why? Pseudonymous accounts. They are huge on Twitter, necessary, and Instagram supports them.

My guess is demographics, younger people use Instagram more than Facebook. Facebook has a lot of negatives attached to its name as well.

Probably because Threads is more suited to the unidirectional follow model

My guess is that facebook’s real name policy wouldn’t go well with this product

Does Facebook have globally-unique user handles? Instagram seems to the the only Meta property where the handle is not PII (real name or phone number).

Among Meta properties, Instagram is also the closest to Twitter as an interest-based social network (rather than limited to people-you-already-know)

Any unique identifier assigned to an "identifiable" person is PII. It doesn't matter if it is an IRC or Instagram handler, or a twitter username. It is PII if it can be associated to a person.

Euro/GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly.

The keyword here is indirectly.

Australia: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00025

personal information means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.

(a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and (b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

The keyword here "reasonably identifiable".

I meant PII that other users can use to identify an individual off-line.

FB as a brand has a stink on it that they don't want Threads to be associated with

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