#Facebook threads

[netscapenavigator-official]

If you post screenshots from Threads, you’re getting blocked. I don’t give a shit what it’s about or how important it is. Blocked. On sight. Immediately.

[msilverstar]

Nice summary, I'm really liking Mastodon as a Twitter replacement partly because I always used the chronological friends list anyway. HMU if anyone wants help with it.

Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?

Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.

There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.

Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want") ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!

It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics. Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!

[go-learn-esperanto]

I see so many people starting to use Threads as a way to escape Twitter and yes, it's owned by Facebook's CEO and giving Facebook the monopoly of social media is bad but I think we should also talk about the fact that, you know, Threads isn't avalibe in the EU for privacy reasons????? That should be concerning to EVERYONE

[political-us]

“why are you not just spending your days doing good things for the world?” - jesse eisenberg

[2mo3cm-man]

[mysharona1987]

Sometimes you just gotta take the loss, man.

[akuaultima]

I'm honestly convinced that tumblr is going to win the social media war by doing literally next to nothing, twitter is fucking itself over, meta is fucking itself over, and meanwhile tumblr is just sitting there like "been there, done that, I warned you and you didn't listen"

[jessiarts]

Was recently reminded by my friend @teeg of just how much info Facebook collects to track you, and I want to share how to make that harder for them with the rest of you.

If you still have facebook/can't get rid of it (for any reason- we're not here to judge today) then you're going to want to clear your off-Meta activity.

You read that right, Meta tracks what you do off it's apps as well. It tracks other apps and websites that you use- whether you connected them to Facebook or not, AND places you visit IRL and when you visited. This includes not just stores and other businesses, but also allegedly includes hotels, schools and hospital/doctors offices. (I'm unfortunately unable to confirm the last three for myself as I didn't look closely at mine before deleting- and it's been years since I've graduated or stayed at a hotel, and months since I've been to a doctor. If anyone cares to confirm in the notes I'll update this post.)

This post will show you how to clear your off-Meta activity. (You'll also want to toggle off Ads data permissions, but I'll make another post about that later.)

First, go to your Profile Icon, then to Settings and Privacy to get to your Settings.

Once in Settings you're going to click See more in Accounts Center. On desktop it should be in a box on the upper-left of the page.

Once in Accounts Center you're going to click Your information and permissions, then Your activity off Meta technologies at the bottom of that window.

Once in the Your activity off Meta technologies window you're going to notice at the bottom three buttons, Disconnect specific activity, Clear previous activity, and Manage future activity.

You're going to want to first clear your previous activity and disconnect future activity. This will also automatically clear any activity that would be under the Disconnect specific activity tab, as it's just for picking and choosing what activity to delete.

An added benefit to this is that it will also clear out some of the data Meta uses for its AI programs- not all, but hey- that's something.

Also, even if you can't delete your Facebook account, I urge you to please delete/uninstall the app from your phone as that's the #1 best way to keep it from tracking you everywhere you go IRL and online. That said, if you delete no other Meta app from your phone- make sure to delete FB messenger- it's literally the worst one, but that's another post, which I'll hopefully get to after the FB ads one I promised above.

Stay safe out there, and remember- fuck Facebook.

[haroldjaffe]

Apparently Threads can also override your choice of display name on your account and display your legal name without notice/consent! What the heck!!

this is so fucking insidious

[yeahiwasintheshit]

"In some very important ways, however, Threads is different from Twitter. Most obviously, users have no real control over the content they see. Whereas Twitter users self-curate, at least partly, by deciding what accounts to follow, Threads' content is currently controlled entirely by algorithms."

are you fucking kidding me? WOW! THIS is what people are clamoring to sign up for?? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE! im legitimately shocked people are ok with this.

[little-miss-ghostess]

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ If you look for small details in cartoons, you'll often be rewarded. The upside-down flag at half staff is a great symbol for this year.

As for Zuck's perm, nothing says "masculine energy" like a guy entering middle age adopting a fashion that was new six years ago. Maybe Mark will now be shopping for skinny jeans with the factory created slits over the knees.

BTW, if you are still using broligarch media (Twitter/X, the Meta platforms, etc.) you need to quit. You make these people richer and more powerful by remaining there.

[saywhat-politics]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."

Jan. 7, 2025, 5:05 AM MST / Updated Jan. 7, 2025, 6:04 AM MST

By Bruna Horvath, Jason Abbruzzese and Ben Goggin

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices Tuesday, citing a shifting political and social landscape and a desire to embrace free speech.

Zuckerberg said that Meta will end its fact-checking program with trusted partners and replace it with a community-driven system similar to X’s Community Notes.

The company is also making changes to its content moderation policies around political topics and undoing changes that reduced the amount of political content in user feeds, Zuckerberg said.

The changes will affect Facebook and Instagram, two of the largest social media platforms in the world, each boasting billions of users, as well as Threads.

[samgiddings]

STOP MAKING APPS WE ALREADY PEAKED WITH NEKO ATSUME‼️‼️‼️

[political-us]

[hashtagloveloses]

yes threads is bad because facebook/meta is bad but as somebody who has worked in social media for years and kept up with every bad thing all these companies does knows, facebook/meta is bad on levels you cannot even fathom bc they have your ass even if you don't have an account. they're collecting data through facebook pixels on websites on you even if you don't have an account. they admitted it openly back in 2018. i mean so does google and a lot else, but - threads is fucking stupid and it will probably be a test to eventually have all its features rolled into IG and IG will just become Second Facebook, bc i DOUBT zuck will want to run a FOURTH separate social community and platform (bc meta also owns whatsapp), but just keep in mind it is....no better or worse than anything else. same with tiktok. they're all getting their ASS beat by the EU and GDPR regulations bc they're all still doing it and paying millions to fight in court.