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generic , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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Threads still exists? People still use Threads?

silencioso ,

Same could be said about Facebook

generic ,
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Yes, but most people have actually heard of Facebook.

01189998819991197253 , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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and there’s no way to opt out

Allow me to show you a way to opt out

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/62f8b3c6-0749-42b4-b73d-502a34565fc9.jpeg

westyvw , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

No need to opt out if you never opted in.

netchami , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

Is that because no one is using Threads?

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

netchami ,

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

mercury ,

Twitter used to be a good place for artists in general, not too sure about now. Never really understood reddit tho.

rchive ,

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.

JiveTurkey , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

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.

MargotRobbie , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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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.

UnspecificGravity ,

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.

restingboredface ,

I mean, how long have they been pouring money into the VR stuff that only their employees were using?

fat_stig , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

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.

Lemonparty , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

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

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

stagen , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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Wow, what a surprise to no one.

gedaliyah , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,

yoz ,

🤣🤣

yoz , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

I stopped it by using this simple trick.

DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP

dustyData , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

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.

smileyhead ,

That’s a great way to make situation worse.

dustyData ,

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.

muntedcrocodile , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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Arent threads suposed to support federation is rhis meta just trying to take over and kill the only credible threat they face?

gravitas_deficiency , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

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

transientpunk , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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There’s a way to opt out… I did it six years ago. No regrets at all.

eee ,

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

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