They’re not creating a shadow account, you’re literally logging in with your instagram account.
What this post is implying, is that the user numbers are just existing instagram accounts, which doesn’t make sense because in that case they’d have 2 billion users within the first second.
You can follow/request to follow before the user has actually “created” the account, so they’re lying about which users have done that already, not about how many users they actually have.
I managed to get it working, but I think the issue wasn’t the file size and rather the image dimensions. My image had 1000x1000, scaling it to 250x250 fixed it. (That correlates of course, but the 1000x1000 was already only around 200kb)
Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
For anyone trying to guess when the next beta will come out (www.thinkybits.com)
This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (lemmy.world)
Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?...
App Icon Idea (programming.dev)
Something along these lines would be fun....
Bet this will be used in court. (i.imgur.com)
You can customize the wefwef icon on iOS! (Or for any other web app) (routinehub.co)
Thought that wasn’t possible, but it actually is. Here‘s two approaches:...
Since we're doing icon concepts... here's another one (lemm.ee)
(It wouldn’t let me upload a bigger resolution, so here’s one, without the mask)...
Made a rough Apollo-inspired icon (lemmy.world)
Is that taking things too far? (lemm.ee)
[Resolved] Community in Lemmy.world not accessible?
I can’t find the Shortcuts community when I search for it, even though it clearly exists: lemmy.world/c/shortcuts....
Cannot upload avatar for my profile
Even if it’s less than 100kb, the JSON issue prompts everytime I upload one. How can I resolve this?...
the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes) (lemmy.world)