You can block all their content, just delete your account.
I deleted all my meta accounts a couple years ago (Facebook, Instagram). When I did it I was afraid I would miss out.<p>Nope: 5 years after I feel good about not being a dopamine-addicted sheep (At least to Meta). It makes me sick to my stomach whenever I go to a public place and see so many people mindlessly losing their life watching reels and stories full of ads. I Used to take the Caltrain and I estimate >50% of the people were mindlessly scrolling instagram during the 1 hour train ride.<p>The best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today.<p>(To be honest I recreated a bogus account to sell things on MarketPlace and I cannot believe the amount of crap constantly pushed to me)
What does your social life look like? Because the reality for me is that in any major city, a significant number of places - even if they technically have websites - post all of their events and happenings on Instagram/FB.<p>Sure, I can talk to my close friends on any number of IM platforms, but if I want to get out and have new experiences, join club meetups, be notified of events at venues I care about, etc. - it's Meta or miss out.
Go to clubs and check the events from ra.co. Go to concerts and art galleries they all have web pages.<p>Berlin, Germany
Yeah the instagram posting is such a complete BS. I have a bogus instagram account where I don't follow anyone for the couple times a year I need to find set times for an artist or that kind of stuff.<p>We need to shame artists/events/clubs that only post on Instagram
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. Recently I tried to make a new one in order to get access to the WhatsApp API to use it for my business, and I just get banned right after the account is created. I'm not sure why, but I guess they don't need my money.
I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messenger (I know regionally this may differ).<p>Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.
I do some IRL activities where many of the participants use social media apps to coordinate and plan sessions. I don't have any of these accounts so while I do miss out on some of the casual things, I just show up and still get 80% or more of the interaction and all of thething I'm after in the first place: doing stuff.<p>You really can live without social media.
Why not just text people? Am I missing something?
If your friends won't use something other than messenger to talk to you, they aren't your friends.
I am not a sparkly special pretty princess. My friends are where they are. In the trade off between meeting people where they're at or doing something unique to me with friction to them, I know which one wins.<p>(note - this is snarky and I don't actually fully disagree with you)
I don’t think it is so binary.<p>If there is more friction to communicate with me I expect to hear from people less often.<p>As an example, my friends that only use Discord and not SMS or Signal definitely hear from me less frequently. It doesn’t mean we’re not friends, but we do communicate less frequently.
I tried threads but had to leave it so quickly. All the posts I see are just baits, people trying to say controversial/stupid things just to seek attention and reaction. I don't know much about social media algorithms, but if the result is that I'm constantly fed with things I don't want to see, maybe it's not the platform I want to be in.
You can block Meta surprisingly: just never join or close the current account.
I deleted Meta's products in 2009. I have never looked back. Explore alternatives and motivate others to do so.
AI features are so good, you're forced to use them whether you chose to or not. I guess the reason is to justify all of this datacenter buildout because the "demand" is so high?
Facebook's whole conception of tagging is a disaster. It's pure noise. What do I gain by seeing you tag someone (or worse, a bot) in a post? Just share it with them privately.
It seems like it's constant provocative news every time Meta hits the Front page. Lol
you cant block the AI, but if you start hatebanging it, i assume it will block you.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122</a>
Engadget source: <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2171113/threads-users-are-pissed-they-cant-block-metas-new-ai-chatbot/" rel="nofollow">https://www.engadget.com/2171113/threads-users-are-pissed-th...</a>
It's only fair since I can't block their AI on WhatsApp either.
Desperation at the highest levels.
One nice thing I heard about recently is you can block the Claude user on Github to create nice yellow banner on vibey repos. It doesn't stop you interacting with the repo if you want to anyway, but has still ended up being a very quick filter for me.
"The customers love our AI so much the DAU is 1:1 with the platform!"
Who uses threads? That’s on you, lol.
Come on, obviously this is just because it's not a regular user because its some weird bot in their backend. You can still mute it.
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The best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today.