Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
If you're still using Facebook in 2023 you deserve this
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.
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.
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?
Are you complaining about Threads ads on the rare occasion that you sell something on Facebook?
Junkie excuses. Do without.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
There's a way to opt out... I did it six years ago. No regrets at all.
I don't see any ads for threads, because I haven't used Facebook for like 5 years now lol
and there’s no way to opt out
Allow me to show you a way to opt out
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.
If not everyone using messenger, I would. I'm not using Facebook tho, but it doesn't help much
Everyone has an excuse but you've gotta start somewhere. There are probably hundreds of ways to message people and we would all survive if Meta and it's products vanished.
Just use the Messenger app or messenger.facebook.com then, you won't see Threads promotions nor be exposed to other Facebook stuff
I believe you can disable your Facebook account but still use Messenger, couple of my friends don't have a profile but can still message.
I use Facebook Messenger but not Facebook or Treads, just set up bare minimum profile and highest privacy settings.
Sure there is... stop using Facebook.
Or be European.
Norwegians are European and they don't have the ban on Threads.
Now I think they should be using VPNs.
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.
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.
I’m just surprised that people are surprised that meta will promote platform A (that they own) on platform B (that they own).
No way to opt out. How about leave
Just fucking leave! Do it! Delete FB and hit the gym!
Hit the lawyer, deleted gym, Facebook up....
I stopped it by using this simple trick.
DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP
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.
I opted out almost 8 years ago be deleting my Facebook account. I would highly recommend.
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.
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
For me it's been injected into the feed. At first I didn't realize it wasn't instagram when clicking on the photo.
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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Well... Of course they are.
What's wrong with that..? Is anyone surprised?
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'.
It's all one app.
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What's Threads?
No, nevermind, I don't want to know.
Agreed. That movie was quite disturbing to me as a youth...
I can show you some Threads videos from Mexico recorded in a very low quality camera
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.
No need to opt out if you never opted in.
The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,
🤣🤣
They're also doing the same on Instagram.
Imagine still using fucking Facebook in the year of the Christians lord 2023
You and literally half the planet.
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.
That's a great way to make situation worse.
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.
Threads still exists? People still use Threads?
Same could be said about Facebook
Yes, but most people have actually heard of Facebook.
There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.
Opting out of Meta?
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.
"no way to opt out"
laughs in no account
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.
Do they really want the people who stayed on Facebook that drove out the initial wave of cool users to go to their new site and drove people away too?
I don't really understand Facebook's logic here. It's widely known that throwing money at a social networking site doesn't create sustainable growth, see Google Plus as an example.
Besides, it seems to me that Threads is just filled with blue checked celeb accounts nowadays and they (usually their social media person) barely ever post anything there, nevermind anything interesting or funny, and I don't think people actually care for that at all.
Someone in a boardroom probably had a neat bar graph and PowerPoint describing how getting Grandma into IG is going to make them a fortune.
I mean, how long have they been pouring money into the VR stuff that only their employees were using?
Have you heard, Amazon advertises and pushes Audible on their platform!
I think the equivalent is actually Amazon's main website sharing to friends your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible
I kinda like the content on Threads but I wanna leave so bad because I hate Meta so much.
~~They should add support for ActivityPub. ~~ They should shut it down because no one uses it anymore.
Wow, what a surprise to no one.