Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.
ohlaph, I opted out almost 8 years ago be deleting my Facebook account. I would highly recommend.
AceFuzzLord, 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.
thorbot, “no way to opt out”
laughs in no account
Blackmist, 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.
01189998819991197253, 
and there’s no way to opt out
Allow me to show you a way to opt out
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westyvw, No need to opt out if you never opted in.
JiveTurkey, 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.
fat_stig, 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.
stagen, 
Wow, what a surprise to no one.
s1ndr0m3, 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, If not everyone using messenger, I would. I’m not using Facebook tho, but it doesn’t help much
JiveTurkey, 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.
banneryear1868, I use Facebook Messenger but not Facebook or Treads, just set up bare minimum profile and highest privacy settings.
echodot, I don’t know anyone who uses messenger WhatsApp sure but messenger? Really?
Zeroxxx, 
That is Muricans’ way of life.
Blackmist, Any company run by Mumsnet huns seems to use it by default…
dai, 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.
coffeeaddict, Just use the Messenger app or messenger.facebook.com then, you won’t see Threads promotions nor be exposed to other Facebook stuff
dai, 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.
netchami, Is that because no one is using Threads?
yamanii, 
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.
generic, 
Threads still exists? People still use Threads?
silencioso, Same could be said about Facebook
generic, Yes, but most people have actually heard of Facebook.
yoz, I stopped it by using this simple trick.
DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP
gedaliyah, The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,
yoz, 🤣🤣
muntedcrocodile, 
Arent threads suposed to support federation is rhis meta just trying to take over and kill the only credible threat they face?
gravitas_deficiency, 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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