Mildly Infuriating

this mfr just raw dogging the internet without an ad block

we're already in possession of all your data and published it in a way that you didn't even know existed, might as well try to fuck this lady

I have never (and will never) use Threads.

Your instance is federating with threads though, and you seem to have image posts. Maybe Meta managed to figure out that your Facebook and Lemmy accounts are both you and is referring to a Lemmy post of yours federated to Threads?

Maybe this is just me but doesn’t it look like the comment was “Has commented on your photo”

My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.

That's kinda the entire reason I use Facebook nowadays, too... and WhatsApp because everyone in my family is too lazy to switch to Signal

You see ads, that's your error.

Because it shows 4 likes, I would take it to mean this is Meta showing you a post that is the text "Commented on your photo". This is still engagement bait, but not necessarily Meta's fault (depending on your perspective). I don't know how they select which posts to show you like this.

I see similar things on TikTok. People make their lives' preview say things like "friends are watching" or "mentioned you" to try to make you think the user entered text is actually a notification.

It's even possible these engagement baiters found a way to get Meta more likely to show their posts through ads like this to get more eyes in their content.

The threads ads I used to get scrolling through Instagram always showed prepubescent children which was really freaky.

My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.

Why feel compelled to defend yourself? Use it and accept that you support it - or don't. No need to apologize to us, you're not going to convince us that your use case is special or that phone calls and texting don't exist.

I have never (and will never) use Threads. ... Deceptive, garbage marketing practices from a deceptive garbage tech company.

Unfortunately, you use Facebook, which means you do support these practices. How much or how little you use Facebook doesn't factor into it. Tangentially, it also means you use Threads, because using Facebook means you use anything Zuck wants you use. That's literally how it works.

Edit: and of course the apologists come out with a nice little soundbite reply that completely ignores what I said here, which, to reiterate, is: defending yourself is a waste of your time because we're going to "attack" you anyway. Using Facebook is bad for society and you should stop doing it.