• RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can imagine that a bunch of those are astroturfing usernames. Businesses, celebrities and the like have a big deal of value in their online identity.

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      1 year ago

      On general, yes, however threads uses your Instagram username. I think it’s just initial excitement to try something new and people getting on the anti - X / twitter / Elon train and then realising that the network effect has way more pull