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

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

    • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 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
    48·
    2 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.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

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

      • JiveTurkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 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.

        • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 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.

      • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I use Facebook Messenger but not Facebook or Treads, just set up bare minimum profile and highest privacy settings.

      • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 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.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      2 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.

  • LoopedNetwork@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    31·
    2 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.

    • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      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’.

  • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

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

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    2 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.

  • Lemonparty@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      For me it’s been injected into the feed. At first I didn’t realize it wasn’t instagram when clicking on the photo.

    • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

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

        • rchive@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          2 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.

        • mercuryEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Twitter used to be a good place for artists in general, not too sure about now. Never really understood reddit tho.