Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

  • Transient Punk
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    592 years ago

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

    • @eee@lemm.ee
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      172 years ago

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

  • @s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world
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    472 years ago

    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.

    • @PeWu@lemmy.ml
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      52 years ago

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

      • @JiveTurkey@lemmy.world
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        82 years ago

        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.

      • Echo Dot
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        22 years ago

        I don’t know anyone who uses messenger WhatsApp sure but messenger? Really?

        • @dai@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          Depends on where you live, Australia I believe use Messenger more than other applications.

          WhatsApp didn’t catch on here outside of the big cities.

      • @dai@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        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.

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        12 years ago

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

        Now I think they should be using VPNs.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      -12 years ago

      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.

  • YⓄ乙
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    172 years ago

    I stopped it by using this simple trick.

    DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    132 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.

  • @ohlaph@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

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

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      42 years ago

      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.

  • LoopedNetwork
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    102 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.

  • @JiveTurkey@lemmy.world
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    92 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.

    • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

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

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        42 years ago

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

        • @rchive@lemm.ee
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          82 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.

  • @gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    82 years ago

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

    • guyrocket
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      02 years ago

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