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You could use a throwaway email and signup for an account. The account creation is a little tricky if you don't use a "real name" but a name generator website may help in this, or use a combination of two tv character names.
Also use a privacy oriented web browser that signs you out each time, something like mule for android or librewolf for desktops.
One thing not to do is use the FB app or the messenger app on your phone, instead do everything on a browser.
I’d suggest a simpler setup of Firefox, uBlock Origin, and a container extension to keep Facebook isolated from your regular browsing. Facebook Fences is a decent one, which also blocks the “Share on Facebook” buttons (which have embedded trackers) on sites.
Unfortunately if you want to use the marketplace, you will need to make an account. Some people have suggested a fake account, and there may be some merit to that. But in reality, Facebook does so much tracking across the web that they’ll already have a phantom account for you. Basically, they track traffic across the web (with their various share buttons, like counters, etc,) and will build a phantom account for you based on your browsing habits.
Then when you make your account, (regardless of whether or not it’s a real name or email,) they’ll simply link that phantom account to your created account. So even when you first make an account, they already have a really good idea of who you are based on your traffic patterns. Hell, they probably even know right away that it’s a fake account.
Using a privacy oriented browser is great, but it ironically makes you easy to fingerprint when signing into accounts, because very few people are cruising around the web with librewolf as their daily driver.
Well, FB does have a .onion....