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

  • xtr0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    1 hour ago

    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.devEnglish
      6·
      1 hour ago

      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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    17 minutes ago

    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.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

    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!

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I just made a dummy account. No posts no follows. I only use for occasional links people send me.

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      49 minutes ago

      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.

      • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
        1·
        4 minutes ago

        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.

  • illi@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Not that this has ever stopped them before, but I would be interested on their attempt at remaining compliant with data protection laws as I feel like locking GDPR right to be forgotten behind a facial ID scan would be seen as an unneeded blocker in order to delete your account.