Comment by Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com on Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead

I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app.

Now I’m a little torn, having a Meta app on my phone is already bad, but having to downgrade to the bloated Messenger app? Not sure I will make a change. What are your thoughts?

Who tf uses messenger

Only the stupidest of humanity.

Well, there goes central Europe

Living in western Europe I would have said no one, but in most of central and eastern Europe is strictly necessary to reach anyone.

Everyone in my family 😞

Texting still exists.

Being spied on by facebook, microsoft, and google is not worth the risk to me personally.

Again, who tf uses messenger?

You’d rather be spied on by your carrier… Got it.

Better them than companies who advertise to me directly

I don’t use either one, for very obvious reasons

Fair enough.

Personally, I don’t like using 30 year old technology to communicate. I avoid phone calls and I generally avoid SMS and it’s derivatives.

I work in IT and generally demand more from my messaging apps. I still avoid FB like the plague though.

Carrier can’t spy on you if iMessage and signal!

Which are both not SMS/texting. I know iMessage falls back to SMS if the number doesn’t have iMessage, which is where the carrier spying comes in.

Instead for iMessage, it’s Apple spying, and for signal it’s… Shrug

I trust iMesssge’s e2e and Apple’s privacy a fuckovalot more than anything Facebook has ever made.

In our country, texting (through the built-in Messenger app) is mostly done as an emergency measure, as most people here use Meta’s other messaging app, WhatsApp.

Again, who tf uses messenger?

The entire nation of Poland

Wait you’re not an entire nation are you?

I just like to be proud of improving digital space around me

They all have phone numbers you can text and they don’t need to install another app or sign up for anything at least. But I understand when they prefer it and you have a fb account anyways.

Sharing media over MMS is a garbage experience. I would need to convince them to use something reasonable, which is a lost cause.

Good luck sending photos or holding a video call with the scant 1100 bits provided by an SMS message…

RCS is our last hope…

AFAIK that unfortunately requires using Google Messages (or moving overseas)

I believe they’ve (Google) been somewhat successful in convincing carriers / 3rd party OS devs like Samsung to start implementing RCS in their own messaging apps. There’s even a 3rd party app on iOS that can use it now.

Ask them to go physically to your house if they ever need to tell you something urgent. If they refuse to, good riddance

Considering I live 2000 miles away from them and do not want them randomly showing up at my door, no thanks lol.

Oh ya I’ll just tell my grandparents to drive 10-12 hours to get to the other side of the island every time they want to talk to me or see my face

@cnnrduncan @csolisr My grandparents are on Signal 🤷

Incredibly based grandparents

At least a billion people

Facebook is the main social media in Africa. It’s not a bommer thing there, everyone use it.

Africa makes more sense. Imperialist nations want to influence the entire continent if possible.

USA, China, and Russia are all vying over the global-south like vultures

Australians apparently. That’s what my cousins said as the explanation for why their family chat was on Facebook.

Messenger is the most popular messaging app in Australia by far. #2 is Apple/Facetime (which is about equal with WhatsApp in terms of market share) but there’s a huge gap between #1 and #2.

Over 3 billion users combined.

So, to answer your question: “Nearly everybody.”

That’s overly dramatic, we’re over 8 billion already… so it’s “Nearly half of everybody” 😜

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