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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re still using Facebook in 2023 you deserve this

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.

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    • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t deal with any business that uses solely facebook as means for communication. I don’t miss them, the platform does a bit less and things get less enshitified. Craigslist isn’t that bad, I still use them all the time, people are much better than the flakes I used to deal with on facebook marketplace. There will be a federated classifieds soon, I’m sure, and the people will regain that corner of the market again.

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    • war@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Junkie excuses. Do without.

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    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.

      Undead marketers?

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    • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not true.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I could get all my friends and family to stop using it, I would. Unfortunately they and also several communities I’m a part of choose to continue using Facebook and IG and nothing else, and if I’m not on there I only learn about events and such by word of mouth several weeks later, after they’re over. I have tried to convince them to leave or at least cross-post on other communities but they look at me like a crazy person and don’t care.

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    • Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was in this boat too. Gave it some thought and realized that if my "friend" group was so uninterested in including me that none of then could be bothered to shoot me a text, then... they weren't really my friends in the first place.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m in a similar situation. I’m also in a town where I have no friends and I can only keep in touch with the friends I have via Facebook, and then a handful by other methods. My brother is also ASD and Facebook is his preferred communications medium. I really wonder if I’ll ever hear from him again if Facebook goes down. He’s never once called me or emailed me and I don’t know his phone number or email address.

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  • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let me explain,

    You study a college, everyone has a Facebook account so it makes sense for teachers to just notify students through Facebook. If everyone has a Facebook account and you dont, its your problem. Noone is going to message you via email just for you.

    A different example, You go to an Office. There is a huge notice board. Its filled with notices and there is a huge queue. The office management has not made it digital so the staff members themselves setup a Facebook page and post the pics of notices. Because they know how to use Facebook and everyone around them use Facebook. So what kind of fool would reject that convinience in looking up notices and go queue up in there?

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    • Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If a professor is using Facebook v. the academic platform provided by the school, they're 100% in the wrong.

      If I go to an office with a huge queue and they're not professional enough to have set up a website then why, exactly, would I trust them with my money? That shows a lack of business sense given that Facebook could destroy their entire model on a whim.

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    • BugFinder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like a made up problem!

      Even in your example, absolutely no one forced anyone to use it as a “social media” app. If it is a matter of convenience to access the notices, or talk to teacher, then use it like how you would use school/work apps such as canvas/blackboard/slack/teams apps. Stop using it beyond it’s purpose. Which is to say, add “friends” if you have to so that you can access notices or messages from your teacher or whatever. But doom scrolling on clickbait and keeping tabs on Exes shouldn’t be done.

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• transientpunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a way to opt out… I did it six years ago. No regrets at all.

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  • eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t see any ads for threads, because I haven’t used Facebook for like 5 years now lol

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  and there’s no way to opt out

  Allow me to show you a way to opt out

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• s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there’s no way to opt out

  Yes there is a way to opt out. Just opt out of Facebook and Meta products all together.

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• jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure there is… stop using Facebook.

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  • topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or be European.

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    • Resol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Norwegians are European and they don’t have the ban on Threads.

      Now I think they should be using VPNs.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should try actually reading the article.

    The subject is Threads users having their posts shown on Facebook. So they don’t need to be using Facebook. Only Threads.

    That being said, it’s sound advice for all Meta products.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m just surprised that people are surprised that meta will promote platform A (that they own) on platform B (that they own).

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• loopednetwork@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel like if you’re still willing to use anything Meta has touched, you have no excuse to be surprised by this kind of thing.

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• LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No way to opt out. How about leave

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  • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just fucking leave! Do it! Delete FB and hit the gym!

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    • Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hit the lawyer, deleted gym, Facebook up…

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• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I stopped it by using this simple trick.

  DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does that matter? Facebook, Insta and Threads are all owned by the same company.

  Why shouldn’t they merge them all together? Gmail sends appointments, flights, etc to Google Calendar. Should I be outraged by that too?

  If you’re still oversharing on Facebook at this point, you know what you’re getting into. Even those that post that nonsense “I do NOT give Facebook permission” spam that highlights everyone vulnerable to other scams.

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I opted out almost 8 years ago.

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was just about to say either deleting your account or not using the service is an opt-out, but you beat me to it.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Arent threads suposed to support federation is rhis meta just trying to take over and kill the only credible threat they face?

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• Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s Threads?

  No, nevermind, I don’t want to know.

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  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. That movie was quite disturbing to me as a youth…

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    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can show you some Threads videos from Mexico recorded in a very low quality camera

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• Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They do it on Instagram too. I barely use Instagram as it is, but I have noticed that it’s suddenly loaded with “recommended threads” or something dumb

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  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For me it’s been injected into the feed. At first I didn’t realize it wasn’t instagram when clicking on the photo.

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• netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that because no one is using Threads?

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Threads was already dead when porn was banned, that’s why it’s so hard for people to move from twitter.

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    • netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t understand why people use Twitter or Reddit for porn. There are dedicated sites for that stuff.

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Imagine still using fucking Facebook in the year of the Christians lord 2023

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You and literally half the planet.

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• DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with that…? Is anyone surprised?

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  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah if anything they arent aggressive enough. They should force all IG users to gave threads or even replace all IG comments with threads 'threads'.

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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well… Of course they are.

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• JiveTurkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Be the change most of us want to see and the world needs. Stop using their products and making excuses for why you need them.

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• westyvw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No need to opt out if you never opted in.

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,

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  • yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    🤣🤣

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• schwim@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.

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• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have Instagram because in my country it’s the only way to contact some businesses. And they are mingling threads posts in between the IG posts.

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  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a great way to make situation worse.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The worse part is that it looks like a screenshot of Threads, but when you look closely it’s actually an IFrame of the whole Threads post with a link to go there and a tiny text advertisement to activate your Threads account.

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• generic@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Threads still exists? People still use Threads?

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  • silencioso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same could be said about Facebook

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    • generic@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but most people have actually heard of Facebook.

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• iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you heard, Amazon advertises and pushes Audible on their platform!

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  • macallik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the equivalent is actually Amazon's main website sharing to other users you know your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible

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• thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “no way to opt out”

  laughs in no account

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• fat_stig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use Pi-Hole + uBlock origin, there is nothing FB can do to make me read this shit.

  I keep an account there to catch up with relatives in other countries, nothing else gets on my feed.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I guess that’s one way for ActivityPub integration, just with themselves. Don’t see why that’s a bad idea though, but I also don’t use Facebook.

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