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.
Thanx
What you’re looking for is called an “Alternative frontend”. I’m not aware of a working one for Facebook but it might be worth searching around!
Thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out. Knowing the term will be very helpful so thank you for that.
just delete your photos & posts and leave it idle…?
This is what I did years ago. No apps. Just a sandboxed FB browser tab so I can check the local marketplace and community groups.
Yeah, school and city use Facebook for everything so I begrudgingly keep an empty account.
Except when you log in and it tracks you across the web and when you interact with it. You’re basically always feeding the machine.
Did you read the post?
“I’m cutting it entirely”, “how can I see it’s content”
Clearly you’re not ot cutting it entirely, as you immediately after declaring you quit smoking bought another pack.
Just leave those platforms. Screw it’s brain rot content. Don’t open links from friends to there anymore. Just live a better life without all the junk there, plus without the junk on YouTube shorts and tiktok. Trust me, your life gets better without it.
Came here to say this. I left cold turkey almost two years ago and haven’t regretted it. I get way more value out of time spent on Mastodon and Lemmy (and I spend way less time on those platforms than I did on FB or IG). I also use Pixelfed, but most of the posts I see there are of birds, flowers, or moss so I only really go there when I want to look at pretty and relaxing things (especially on Sundays with the #silentsunday posts).
The only way to truly leave entirely is to not look back.
You’re talking about being fed content.
In my country, Facebook is so embedded that it’s hard to leave. All communication is on Messenger. All events are managed on Facebook.
I feel that. Here in Hawai’i a lot of our emergency services, etc. only use Twitter. Finding information can be difficult otherwise. I imagine in some places it’s basically impossible.
I never wss on insta and tiktok and I left Facebook 10 years ago. I spend way too much time on Lemmy, but most of my time I spend with friends or doing things I love. Fuck social media. It makes everyone miserable.
If a business only has some shitty Instagram or Facebook page or wants to only be contactable via WhatsApp then they don’t deserve my fucking business.
Word has it that face scanning will soon be necessary to do anything at all on FB and IG (including deleting your account)
Any sources or links to share on this? If this is true it’d be worth it to send to friends and family who still have an account.
Last year, I set up an IG account to just view a family member’s posts. It required a photo of me. At first I was said, “fuck no”, but, just to see what would happen, I uploaded an image of some random face. I think it might have even been from a cartoon. It worked.
Go try to create a new FB account, that’s the source because they already do require a face scan to create a new account.
https://www.pixnoy.com/ is a good way to browse public Instagram accounts.
I was using imginn, but this is a nice one, thanks!
I use either MeTube or https://mollygram.com/ to view IG reels my wife and friends send me. Doesn’t have full browsing though, and might not help with seeing business hours. I tend to just not do business with any place that requires an account to see their info.
I just made a dummy account. No posts no follows. I only use for occasional links people send me.
I tried and couldn’t. It immediately flagged my empty account with no activity for “violating TOS” and required a face scan to reactivate it.
I made my Instagram account several years ago. I think I posted a couple photos at the beginning, now that I’m thinking of it.
Try generating 2-3 random AI images and posting them. Just to establish the account at the beginning.It also makes sense that they’re more strict now. It may not work anyway.
I e-mailed IG support saying hey I made a new account and you insta blocked me. I think they manually unlocked me and I’ve been using my dummy account since.
I did the same thing but if you read the post that’s not what I’m asking for.
I understand what you were asking for. People ask for what they imagine. What they can imagine isn’t always what they want. Sometimes an entirely different idea can work better than they imagined.
By what you wrote, you want to be able to access Facebook and Instagram anonymously. The essayist most reliable way to do that is with a disposable account. Work around sites aren’t all that reliable. They work for a time then get swatted down, or limited in some way.
“Can I leave a walled garden, but still see inside?”
No. That’s why the wall exists on the garden.
FB, you can use UBLOCK origin to block the login popup permanently. on this reddit post https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1g3bkhy/how_to_block_facebook_login_pop_up/
I heard about https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram but never used it
A bit of pain but you can still see FB, you have to hit the [x] in the top right of the login nag then it will let you scroll through several photos/posts before popping up again (wont work on the main feed page just photos/posts, not sure about liked pages). When it does pop up again it wont have the [x] so click the browsers refresh and the [x] will show up again but FB will still be on the same photo/post. Rinse, repeat.
There is a ublock filter you can add to block the login page to appear if that’s what you are looking for.
Can’t add it right now, but let me know if you can’t find it and I will add it
If you’re going to “leave” then actually leave and stop using it.
I mean because of friends and family where that is my only contact information I doubt I will ever drop facebook. I just don’t interact with it much. its like when im not looking for work I barely interact with linkedin.
I need Facebook for my volunteering gig, sadly. I disabled my own profile over 2 years ago now and made a fake profile which only follows the information I need on there and nothing else. I only use it in one specific browser with an extremely good Facebook specific ad blocker.
See, this is the responsible way. Offer no other data, just your connection and the single point of use.
