Whatsapp is going to run terribly...

All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

This is kind of funny. Some of these features I would see see as Google’s turf. However, since Google can’t create a text messaging service, Meta can use their messaging app to encroach.

The software enshittification cycle continues.

I stick to Telegram. I don’t want anything to do with Meta.

Then Telegram do something bad or stupid (it already started to) and you’ll have to transfer all your friends again…

That’s still better than using Meta:)

By choosing the lesser evil it is only getting bigger.

That’s neither of OSI Layers lol

I stick to matrix. I want nothing to do with telegram.

I stick to XMPP. I would not mind being on Matrix but XMPP is much less bloated on my server.

Don’t use WhatsApp or Telegram. There are better things to use. (Signal, Session and simplex chat)

lol. "Don’t use the messaging apps used by all your friends and family. Use another app so you cant contact them. "

Imagine being required to have the same app as your friend to send a message.

Then get them on a different app. Be a leader not a follower

This is pretty much the only thing stopping me from using another app

Man, messaging is a nightmare. I use signal with a few of my closest contacts, whatsapp with most other people, sms as a fallback and for work I have to occasionally use Teams and fucking Viber (ugh). At least I managed to liberate myself from the clutches of Slack.

If only there was some standard way to get these apps to talk to each other so everybody could use what they want. Oh wait, there was, it was called XMPP, it worked perfectly and big tech fucking killed it and replaced it with the irritating clusterfuck that is the current status quo.

Matrix with Bridges does help a lot, though. Alternatively Beeper. (Which is Matrix with Bridges)

Sure, I use Signal with some. But I will have to use WhatsApp to interact with most people. They won’t switch just because I tell them to.

Luckily they don’t have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)

Except Signal likely won’t adopt that, as they already mentioned some time ago

All hail the European union

Wire has pretty much proven it’ll never gain traction.

pls whatsapp stop copying from fucking telegram there should be a law to make it not possible this is killing competition

But ‘Stories’ are from IG, owned by Meta… so… we rather stay quiet on this occasion xdd

first they copied it from snapchat (meta loves to copy from smaller alternatives to kill them) second they added it only people where continuing to ask them for it (me too)

Stories are the worst addition to Telegram. I hope Meta sue them and make them remove this feature :D

Stories are the Meta’s copy of snapchat.

tg stories failed miserably due to being premium only tho

But I can use them just fine? Some customization options like expiration time are behind premium but it’s available for everyone.

I think it was premium only for a short while before version 10

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