I didn't provide an example because there's already a ton of other responders with examples. The claim is clearly false, but it was presented as emphatically true and I was wondering why.
I have found my mental health substantially better from downvoting and moving on in those cases, especially if there’s other people already responding with what you would want to say.
Yeah, I should do that instead. I'm just so tired of people uncritically and emphatically spreading falsehoods, especially in cases like these, when it's not a function of philosophy or viewpoint, and can be found to be objectively wrong, despite initial insistence. But yeah, downvote, move on.
Downvote and move on, or provide the reasoning behind your claim. Simply saying "you are obviously wrong" without any substantiation adds nothing to the discussion and instead tends to derail it, prompting further low value comments or causing people to respond to a straw man of what they assume your reasoning is. You shouldn't assume that other commenters will know that your reasoning is expressed in comments by other people you haven't linked or referenced. Some of the other comments provided counter examples that aren't as obviously social media (YouTube) or corporate (BlueSky) and which I found less convicing than the clear analogue in Threads (which I have never used and just assumed worked like Meta's other products which don't allow this.)
After having looked further, I agree with your claim, but it wasn't "obviously true" to me. I only use a small subset of social media and thus the knowledge from which I operate is different from yours and different things are obvious to me.
While I appreciate the energy, they aren't the account I originally asked the question to. That account never responded, and wandered off into the night after being correct a dozen times.
Why would you emphasize that point when it's clearly wrong? Is it ignorance? Is it to push a particular narrative? I'm confused.