Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?

  • tauren@lemm.ee
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    6 minutes ago

    I abandoned Facebook and Instagram about 8 years ago, when they had begun putting some random posts on my feed. It was nice when it was about following your friends and their content, but I couldn’t care less about their recommendations.

  • tektite@slrpnk.net
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    12 minutes ago

    I quit circa 2012 after a friend posted a photo of us and fb suggested they tag me.

    I’ve never used any of the others.

  • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    41 minutes ago

    To download ra2 maps, other than that it’s a right wing site, you wouldn’t touch with a 10 ft pole. Also found a way to bypass their login using unlock origin

  • nadram@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    No more Meta apps. FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads. Nothing. Painful at times but worth it.

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        3 minutes ago

        Where I live, a lot of small businesses, solo entrepreneurs, and events can only be discovered via Facebook. So if you need some service, you will probably never find them if you aren’t on Facebook.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Still have an account, but haven’t been of FB for over 2 years. Once I did some stats and found that only something like 4% of top 100 posts were updates from friends; rest was ads or suggested videos. So, I stopped checking it out and gradually forgot about it, and I found I wasn’t missing out on anything.

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    Wish I didn’t have to but in my country pretty much everyone still uses it. So if I want to keep in touch with people that I know irl or if I want to keep an eye open for gigs to go watch or whatever events that I might want to go to, I have to keep it around.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    I deleted my personal FB around a decade ago and Instagram few years ago but I joined back in because I needed pages for my business. I wouldn’t exactly still say that I use them. I make one or two picture posts of my work a month and then leave.

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    No. I found two scripts on github that unfriended everyone and deleted all my data ~two years ago.

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    3 hours ago

    I think I used Facebook from about 2006 to 20… 2016? I dunno. It was never good. Never used Instagram. I don’t want to see other people’s selfies if I don’t know them

  • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Yes, for marketplace and some flea market groups. Most of my friends have moved on, some sadly to WhatsApp, which I refuse to install.