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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by ranguna on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:28AM (#39988319)
You can join those communities and discussions with "work" accounts. Instead of creating a personal twitter or meta account, you could create one that is only used to join those specific groups and discussion.
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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by notachatbot1234 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:19AM (#39989401)
Those sites are designed to exploit you psychologically in various ways (ads, order of display, design, gamified interaction etcetera). The purpose of your account does not matter if you cannot access and consume the information in a reasonable and healthy way.
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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by pjerem on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:35AM (#39988347)
Yes you can. But then, you have an account. Most people that dont have an account on social medias just don’t want to accept the TOS.

Also worth noting that it sounds like meta thinks like they already have all earth population in their products because new accounts are really easily banned for no reason. Any temporary account I made to access some information have been blocked minutes or hours after creation.

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