[pavlov]

It’s not like Meta doesn’t know how it works. They ship many apps that share accounts like FB + Messenger most prominently.

They’ve also had separate apps in the past that shared an Instagram account, like IGTV (2018 - 2022).

The Threads delay was primarily a lobbying ploy.

[phyrex]

No, it really was a legal privacy thing. I worked in privacy at Meta at that time. Everybody was eager to ship it everywhere, but it wasn't worth the wrath of the EU to launch without a clear data separation between IG and threads.