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Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out (www.engadget.com)
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Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    lot of dumbass small businesses using it when they should have a website

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which is so dumb, making a website isn’t that hard with all the tools that will do it for you and are advertised on every pod that has ever been cast.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business's actual site.

    Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    I took the phrase "small business" to mean places with an actual storefront (restaurants, small shops, studios, and so on) who use FB or IG in lieu of having their own site. For those places it makes particularly little sense because social media isn't most people's first port of call when they're looking for somewhere to eat dinner or go thrifting.

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