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.
stagen, 
Wow, what a surprise to no one.
gedaliyah, The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,
yoz, 🤣🤣
yoz, I stopped it by using this simple trick.
DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP
dustyData, 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, 
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).
transientpunk, 
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
iAmTheTot, 
Have you heard, Amazon advertises and pushes Audible on their platform!
macallik, 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
mojo, 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.
LainOfTheWired, 
No way to opt out. How about leave
guyrocket, 
Just fucking leave! Do it! Delete FB and hit the gym!
Gregorech, Hit the lawyer, deleted gym, Facebook up…
downpunxx, 
Imagine still using fucking Facebook in the year of the Christians lord 2023
helenslunch, You and literally half the planet.
schwim, 
There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.
DingoBilly, What’s wrong with that…? Is anyone surprised?
BarrierWithAshes, 
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'.
loopednetwork, 
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.
atzanteol, Well… Of course they are.
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