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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[+] 133 points 2 years ago (14 children)
  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 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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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago

    and there’s no way to opt out

    Allow me to show you a way to opt out

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

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    If not everyone using messenger, I would. I'm not using Facebook tho, but it doesn't help much

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Sure there is... stop using Facebook.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years 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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  • 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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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No way to opt out. How about leave

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I stopped it by using this simple trick.

    DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I opted out almost 8 years ago be deleting my Facebook account. I would highly recommend.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

    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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    [–] 10 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Well... Of course they are.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    What's wrong with that..? Is anyone surprised?

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's Threads?

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

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

    Is that because no one is using Threads?

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

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I think people use things like Reddit for anything because Reddit has a built in system of human curation. It's not just SEO engineered garbage fake websites like basically every search engine will yield now, or sites' internal searches pushing you to their top players instead of what you're actually searching for.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    They're also doing the same on Instagram.

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

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

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Threads still exists? People still use Threads?

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    "no way to opt out"

    laughs in no account

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