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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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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.

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

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

What deal was this?

This was for WhatsApp

> 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.

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.

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

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

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?

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