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Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
- analogpixel 5mo agoYou can block all their content, just delete your account.
- siren2026 5mo agoI deleted all my meta accounts a couple years ago (Facebook, Instagram). When I did it I was afraid I would miss out. 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. The best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today. (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)
- platevoltage 5mo agoI 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.
- Arainach 5mo agoWhat 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. 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.
- pimeys 5mo agoGo to clubs and check the events from ra.co. Go to concerts and art galleries they all have web pages. Berlin, Germany
- siren2026 5mo agoOr dice in NYC. Most venues and places are slowly going away from closed gardens.
- tokioyoyo 5mo ago> Most venues and places are slowly going away from closed gardens. They are? Honestly, first time hearing about this. I've noticed only big events get posted outside of the IG/etc. Even in Tokyo, a simple thing like checking if a place is open on a public holiday is to check their Instagram.
- ryan_lane 5mo agoSadly in Tokyo, most businesses post their info to twitter or instagram, but in both cases you're able to read without an account (not well, but it's possible).
- amake 5mo agoInstagram makes it extremely frustrating without an account. Many times I have checked a small business's opening times on Google Maps only to arrive and find them closed... the only place they reliably post their times is on Instagram. I gave up and got Instagram.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoI guess we need a Nitter for Instagram?
- siren2026 5mo ago
- spacechild1 5mo agoI have been barely using FB, but I deactivate my account early 2025 and I never looked back. I never had Instagram or Twitter. I thought I would miss out on many events, but then I just signed up to a few more newsletters and that's still more events than I have time to vist. I still wish we had a proper replacement for FB events. At least we have a nice market place platform that everyone uses (willhaben.at). For a long time I didn't even know that FB MarketPlace exists.
- JKCalhoun 5mo ago"When I did it I was afraid I would miss out." All the cool kids left FB a decade ago. You're not missing anything.
- TitaRusell 5mo agoI follow traditional media/journalists. Everything important on social media still reaches me- just 24 hours later.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoIf you really hate a company, you won't delete your account. You'll run spam on that (verified human) account or sell it to some third party who wants an account for spamming.
- lazide 5mo agoThey make money from your spam too, at least in the short term.
- notabotiswear 5mo agoI mean, these companies are themselves providing the tools to mass produce what would be labelled “spam,” the topic of the OP itself. Deleting your account may not make even a pixel of difference in their KPI graphs, but -in addition to the mental benefits- you get the moral one of not being a participant in this mess…
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- tardedmeme 5mo agoThey only support spam when it aligns with their own incentives. They hate when other people come along and spam the platform for free.
- wotsdat 5mo ago[dead]
- SilverElfin 5mo agoIs there an easy way to delete all of your comments and likes and all of that first? Or at least to randomly alter them into garbage? They make it impossible to do bulk things.
- tartoran 5mo agoYou can block Meta surprisingly: just never join or close the current account.
- rolph 5mo agoyou cant block the AI, but if you start hatebanging it, i assume it will block you.
- ge96 5mo agoTay.0
- protocolture 5mo agoI got a multi week ban for breaking metas rules when I told its AI to uh fornicate with itself, go somewhere else and then cease living.
- Loughla 5mo agoTry it without the death part. I bet that gets a pass.
- asdff 5mo agoYup, on the internet these days it is fine to talk about the most vile and disgusting things you can imagine, to a point. And that point is if you say joke about apoptosis and an elected official or some billionaire in the same sentence, it is [ Removed by Reddit ]. It is amazing the era of censorship we find ourselves in today and no one seems to be complaining about it either.
- yangm97 5mo agoOh I see plenty of people complaining but only a few are willing to try another platform like nostr or mastodon or whatever else. “I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”
- protocolture 5mo agoI have been a mastodon user for ages. Its a great platform. But I haven't been able to recruit for it. And the app I used died and was removed from the play store. I use it to read interesting conversations between european hackers. It certainly hasnt paid dividends to run my own masto server. I will be retiring it and moving my account somewhere else. I dont post anything there, because nobody I know is there, and so why care about owning my own data? Metcalfe was right etc etc.
- parliament32 5mo ago"The customers love our AI so much the DAU is 1:1 with the platform!"
- rvz 5mo agoDesperation at the highest levels.
- lpcvoid 5mo ago[dead]
- chistev 5mo agoIt seems like it's constant provocative news every time Meta hits the Front page. Lol
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- ChrisArchitect 5mo agoEngadget source: https://www.engadget.com/2171113/threads-users-are-pissed-they-cant-block-metas-new-ai-chatbot/ https://www.engadget.com/2171113/threads-users-are-pissed-th...
- Lucasoato 5mo agoI 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.
- add-sub-mul-div 5mo agoIt's like someone tried to make 2020s Twitter without white supremacy but didn't understand that 2020s Twitter is worthless even without that.
- jjtheblunt 5mo agoX / Twitter has excellent published scientific (like actual scientific, not bologna) research paper content...BUT it's a chore tuning it to shunt all the rage baiting bullshit, i find.
- manyatoms 5mo agoI had assumed all the science moved elsewhere by now, like bluesky
- jjtheblunt 5mo agothere could be more there that i don't see
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- beepbooptheory 5mo agoOne 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.
- esafak 5mo agoFacebook'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.
- probably_wrong 5mo agoIt's only fair since I can't block their AI on WhatsApp either.
- siren2026 5mo agoThe best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today.
- unbolted3032 5mo agoI deleted Meta's products in 2009. I have never looked back. Explore alternatives and motivate others to do so.
- avazhi 5mo agoWho uses threads? That’s on you, lol.
- platevoltage 5mo agoAI 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?
- themafia 5mo agoPeople seem unreasonably mad I don't believe in "AI" the way they do. Which is weird, because by their futuristic logic, they'll be miles ahead of me for it. Yet my Luddite citizenship somehow still really gets to them. Just as I'm sure the number of people blocking the account got to some middle manager somewhere who made it that day's mission to "fix" it.
- alex1138 5mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122
- wilg 5mo agoCome 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.
- circularfoyers 5mo agoI 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). 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.
- ryan_lane 5mo agoIf your friends won't use something other than messenger to talk to you, they aren't your friends.
- patch_cable 5mo agoI don’t think it is so binary. If there is more friction to communicate with me I expect to hear from people less often. 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.
- dlivingston 5mo agoI 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. (note - this is snarky and I don't actually fully disagree with you)
- tapoxi 5mo agoWhy not just text people? Am I missing something?
- saila 5mo ago
- NDlurker 5mo agoI only re-activate Facebook when I want to buy something from Marketplace. Deleted the IG app again recently. Also figured out how to change settings on YouTube so I can't scroll through reels and turned off auto play. I'm banned from Reddit and Twitter. Never got into Tik Tok or Threads. Very happy about all of that
- nullandvoid 5mo agoTo add to this for youtube the unhook extension is great to block everything other than search and playing vids Then I permanently block youtube and reddit on phone. I've explored quite a few blockers - AppBlock for android is the best I've used / has no bugs on my now older s21.
- suzzer99 5mo agoScrolling Facebook: Oh that looks interesting. Oh. It's on threads. Nope.
- platevoltage 5mo agoSo it's not just Instagram that does this.
- suzzer99 5mo agoEr, I think I meant Instagram. Facebook now has AI nonsense that look like reels, or whatever they call reels. So I nope out of those too.
- charpit 5mo agoTo be honest, none of this surprises me. It was to be expected.
- insumanth 5mo agoI like an AI that can answer questions with all information and context on a particular thread. It should not be visible to others in the thread / post. You ask, it answers and that's it. It should not take over the feed. I like the Grok Button at the side of Tweet, I dont like "@grok is this true"