Comment by stevage

1 month ago

> Delete all social media apps, use the phone browser for it.

This doesn't really work with Facebook - it tells you to get the mobile app instead.

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SanjayMehta  1 month ago

I deleted Facebook completely around ten years ago, never regretted it.

Last year deleted the LinkedIn mobile app, and oddly enough LinkedIn now wants me to verify my identity using a govt id. What a coincidence.

  • Semaphor  25 days ago

    This works for some people. But for me, Facebook introduces nothing negative because I don’t follow any ragebait stuff, and instead get updates from people I (somehwat) know, and bands I’m interested in.

  • stevage  25 days ago

    I like all the community groups that I'm part of on it. There isn't really any substitute for that.

    I dislike pretty much everything else on there though, especially all the stupid videos and stuff it shows.

Zak  25 days ago

Facebook has a website, and it works inside mobile browsers. When are you finding it impossible to use that way?

  • stevage  25 days ago

    On FF Android, for me, https://facebook.com/messages redirects to https://m.facebook.com/messages, and just shows a message telling me to get the Messenger app.

    It seems to trigger based on the browser window being too small. Yes, it is possible to access messages by requesting the desktop site, but it's pretty inconvenient.

    • Zak  25 days ago

      Using it for messaging is different. I took "the mobile app" to mean the Facebook app with the timeline, groups, etc... (com.facebook.katana on Android), which also doesn't let you access messages. They really seem to want to promote their Messenger app as a distinct product.

      I'm not sure messaging can work well in a mobile browser because notifications would not be timely, but maybe you're using it for a purpose that doesn't require instant notifications.

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