I don’t need anyone to tell me that Facebook sucks because I already know that, and I would never use it unless in my country, for reasons unknown to me, public and private institutions use Facebook as a primary method of sharing news, such as schedules or promotions.

I don’t have the slightest intention of creating a Facebook account, but as I said, I need to see posts from certain Facebook accounts and every time I go to a Facebook page and scroll for 2 seconds I get a pop-up forcing me to create an account. And as far as I know, there is no sort of Piped front-end for Facebook, I would appreciate any help.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    1 month ago

    Same question, but Instagram.

    Sucks that a bunch of businesses think an Instagram account is an acceptable substitute for a website.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

    Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn’t want to be shown to other people as a potential “friend”.

    I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

    • Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      1 month ago

      I have tried, the pop-up is indeed removed but the background remains gray and you can’t scroll, there is like an invisible gray wall that can’t be removed, and I have tried to activate the annoyance filters without any success.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    5·
    1 month ago

    Just out of curiosity, what country would use Facebook for government announcements? That is fucking wild

  • Joshi@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 month ago

    We need to start letting people and organisations know that this isn’t acceptable. I’ve been guilty of just using an anonymous account or letting it slide but having a mailing list is not much effort for example, honestly having a basic website is pretty cheap and easy.

  • 🦇 Batman 🦇@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Creating a different email account and then creating a account and using firefox with unlock will still do the work instead of doing all of this

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 month ago

    I used to have a burner account and a program that logged in to FB with Selenium and converted certain “pages” into RSS feeds. It worked great when it did, but Facebook has a lot of measures against scraping, and I burned out trying to maintain this.

    I don’t know a way to read their content without an account, which excludes me from a lot of local events.

  • Stomata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Unfortunately I have never seen one. I tried to create a burner account with tuta mail by they want my photo or gov id for verification.