users are presented with a clear choice between two paths

There is a third path. Just stop being a user. Maybe that choice isn't clear enough. Push notifications are fucking evil. I removed the app and use FB as a PWA about once every six months. I might use it more if it had content from my friends or anyone I gave a fuck about, but instead it's all promotions and suggestions.

Without the little red number creating FOMO on my phone, I have no impulse to check it. Yet I check Lemmy several times a day. I check Bluesky every couple of days. Because every time I open them, someone I want to hear from is posting something I want to see. You should try that, Zuck.

Meta claims the subscriptions will "unlock productivity

Productivity... on Facebook? God they are desperately need to sell you something here.

How long until the premium version also has ads? It's the clear trend at this point.

A premium tier for WhatsApp? The app I want to get rid of but can't because employers can't be assed to send emails or make phone calls first?

Do people still use Meta’s products?

I hit this today when I went to check a local restaurant's Instagram for the menu (like many I've come across, they treat Instagram as their website)

Nope. I guess that information is now all gone to me

Between this and Twitter I'm pretty annoyed at how much harder it is to get local information without just physically going to a place compared to 5 years ago. I'm not gonna pretend it used to be perfect, but this is getting spectacularly shitty

Guarantee that your data still gets used to feed you ads with the "premium" subscription.

Who in the fuck would do this?

I know I would be more creative if I handed Zuck my money monthly. No doubt about it.

Why the fuck do ppl still use Meta and its suite of spy apps. Not to mention he has a special set of knee pads when he cups the orange fascist shriveled nut sack.

Pays us to spy on you!

honestly, with how much my grandfather uses facebook, and how often he clicks the stupid scam ads, this might be a valid option for him that is easier.

This ofc is if they decide to launch this program for <3$ a month. If it's anything more than that I see it flopping on entry.

edit: looking at the article, I'm seeing 4EUR/m... yea 5$ isn't horrible, but at the same time that's probably too high for him to even consider it. That's 2$ less than a yt lite premium subscription, and that's a platform where ads actually get in the way of things.

Subscription? For Fascbook? Is this some sort of fucking joke?

Of all the faces I hate most on planet earth, that dildo's is second.

These bastards got market place on lock. Luckily with graphene I sand box the tracking apps in another profile(for now). Fucken sucks though. Work/family use what's app as well. We need alternatives, but most people just dont care or think about it.

It’s too late. You already spent 20+ years training people to use the shittiest version you could give them.

So, all the bots are supposed to pay or watch add's? That's insane!

Honestly, if this reduces user-hostile UI changes for paid accounts, and I can get a chronological feed of just friend activity with original content, I'd pay it at this point.

(I know there is supposed to be a friends-only feed now, but it's not even close to being friends-only still.)

It's a big if, and I don't think it will be what I want, but I'm just putting it out there that I would pay if the experience is valuable enough.

I've never noticed until now that Zuckerberg looks like a giraffe.

~~TheFacebook~~Meta: We Suck and We Know It. Now give us money.

More signal users incoming

Is this image in the article AI generated or a meta replicant?

Keep it up asshole, keep pissing people off.

Haha. No.