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I'm cutting FB and IG entirely, is there a way to see content there without an account? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Word has it that face scanning will soon be necessary to do anything at all on FB and IG (including deleting your account) so I'm in the process of taking care of that business now and trying to encourage the few friends I'm still in touch with to do the same.

Unfortunately, without an account you can't access content, and there are still numerous local businesses and organizations posting at FB and IG and I can't really expect that to change anytime soon. But it would definitely help sell the idea of giving them up if I can offer another way of seeing posts on those sites.

With IG, there is https://imginn.com/ which I've been using for a time, it seems to work well enough to show an account's IG posts.

What I really need is something like that for FB. I don't really need to see posts from individual accounts as I don't even think my friends post on FB anymore; I really just want to be able to see "Liked Pages" as those are often regional businesses and communities. Being able to see groups would also be helpful but those often require special permission even when you do have an FB account so I don't expect much there.

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[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 months ago (2 children)

More businesses need to hear people say “I don’t use Meta products “ so that they consider making critical information available elsewhere. And businesses that still use Twitter should be shunned.

[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This... too many small businesses use facebook as their "webpage." I'm not creating an account, blank or otherwise, to view your hours... I probably just won't go.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Small businesses do this because it's free, quick to set up, and easy to maintain with no technical knowledge required.

Facebook obviously made it easy on purpose, hoping to create exactly this scenario - where half of all small-business presence is only on Facebook and if you want to see that content you need a Facebook account to do it.

I hate it passionately, but I absolutely understand how it came to be this way.

Small business owners aren't thinking about the ideological consequences of forcing people to engage with big tech to see their site, or that they should take a stand in promoting an open and decentralised Internet. They're just thinking "I need a web presence" and I guess I can't blame them for that as much as I dislike it.

[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Oh, I understand it... it's basically free and I think they feel that advertising on facebook is good business. Facebook has just made it hard to view without an account. I think I'd have less of a problem with it if I could view the information without facebook popping up a "create an account" modal constantly, preventing me from viewing the information.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

We could go around offering to make websites for all these small businesses.

But none of us will. Thats the only way to actually fight this.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These guys not hear of yelp?

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Or even google maps?

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 6 points 2 months ago

Seriously. Why is it so hard to find information about restaurants on the internet? And why can't you post your damn menu?!