- Threads
Not counting Meta Quest. I’m curious about the adoption of Meta platforms amongst Lemmy users.
Never had an Insta or Threads. Haven’t touched my Facebook in almost 12 years, the last time I logged in was to send a message to my wife back when we were long-distance dating.
I have only used Facebook for it’s messenger as many of the people I know can only be contacted there.
Outside of that I’ll occasionally look at my mother’s picture albums as the bitch has over 7,000 images posted and some of them are of me throughout my life so I’ll look to show people certain things.
As a performer, I’m essentially forced to use IG for reach. I fucking hate it.
I use Messenger more than Facebook tbh
I was never really active on Instagram or threads. I do still use Facebook as I have a number of friends who are on there who aren’t on any other social media (and also, neither am I really). But my usage has dropped a lot since they’ve made the mobile client so horrible. Ever since they kneecapped Most Recent I refuse to be at the mercy of their algorithm. So I really only view it on desktop.
Why not count Oculus product?
Anyway I still use WhatsApp as most people I know uses it.
Because I don’t care about Oculus. I was only interested in the social media aspects of the company.
Nope. I only used Facebook, but I deleted my account when I was around 12.
Only WhatsApp because of my family. Not much of a choice there…
I tried to convert everyone to signal, but know-betters with opinions decided “we just like it better”.
Never mind the ongoing data-rape by that app…. We ‘just’ likeitbetter.
I think people prefer the one everyone is at. Makes sense. For social media, what matter most is social capital. People only migrate when they feel that the majority will migrate. Some are more sensitive and migrate sooner. But never when there isn’t a trend.
I have not had a FB account since 2015. Just decided to delete it one day and never returned. Never had an insta. And definitely not signing up for threads.
I check Facebook about quarterly for messages from people who don’t know I don’t use that platform. That’s literally the only reason I keep my account active. I also have all notifications turned off and don’t have the phone app, so if someone contacts me on there that I’m not expecting, they’ll be waiting a while to hear back.
Seems like we’re outliers here 😄 I keep it for those acquaintances who aren’t important enough to merit texting directly, but still might want to message me on messenger every now and again. Check in with it once every couple of months and see if anyone messaged me, scroll through the feed, get annoyed at all the “memes” and then exit.
There’s a new extremely annoying trend where a post at a “local” company says “hey we need to offload this expensive item, type @highlight in the chat to enter” which ends up pinging your entire friends list. Very annoying, super scummy.
Yes, reluctantly, and only weekly and in incognito mode on this one laptop.
So many things regarding my kids’ spare t8me activities are organized via facebook.
Yeah, mostly Instagram and Messenger. All of my friends are on both so I don’t really have a choice.
And yes, before you ask, I tried to push everyone to signal and failed.
Not for years now, and I’m very glad for it
I never did. In my 25 years of using and working with computers, my only social media accounts where Twitter (deleted since 5 years), reddit (deleted) and now the fediverse.
And I never give people my private mobile number if I know that they use meta apps
I got off Facebook 10 years ago, never got entangled with anything else.
Whatsapp is ubiquitous in my country, so while I try to use Signal with as many people as I can, I do use Whatsapp at least every couple days. Never had Instagram or Threads. I have an inactive facebook account.
Actually checked my Facebook feed recently out of curiosity. It’s amazing how dead it is these days. I could scroll for ages and none of the posts were from people on my friends list, or even pages I liked. Everything was just generic shit.
It’s the exact opposite for me. All my friends are on there and people posting all the time in my local community. The groups are always popping as well. I feel like they’ve gotten even more popular lately since the reddit fallout.
