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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 ,

🤣🤣

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).

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

What’s Threads?

No, nevermind, I don’t want to know.

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

cy_narrator ,

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

jeremy_sylvis , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
@jeremy_sylvis@midwest.social avatar

Sure there is… stop using Facebook.

topinambour_rex ,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

Or be European.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

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

Now I think they should be using VPNs.

helenslunch ,
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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.

iAmTheTot , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
@iAmTheTot@kbin.social avatar

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

macallik OP ,

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

downpunxx , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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Imagine still using fucking Facebook in the year of the Christians lord 2023

helenslunch ,
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You and literally half the planet.

schwim , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.

LainOfTheWired , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

No way to opt out. How about leave

guyrocket ,
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

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

Gregorech ,

Hit the lawyer, deleted gym, Facebook up…

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.

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

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

BarrierWithAshes ,
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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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