Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)
by gernb on Sunday May 22, 2022 @03:36AM
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I know everyone else in the west seems to use WhatsApp but in my social circle I connect to nearly everyone via FB Messenger. I have but don't use WhatsApp. I have no idea what it provides that FB Messenger doesn't provide and better. I don't need a phone number for FB Messenger. I can access it trivially at messenger.com, no need for the crazy QR code non-sense of WhatsApp. I also do not have to give FB Messenger access to my contact list, unlike WhatsApp (maybe that's changed but it used to be required).
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WhatsApp doesn’t provide anything messenger doesn’t. As far as I can tell, WhatsApp as a product reached its ‘market fit’ years and years ago, in that they stopped bothering trying to add anything to it. Real pity in some ways its not even slightly extensible
> WhatsApp doesn’t provide anything messenger doesn’t.
People say Telegram provides everything Signal does too, but seem to forget about E2E by default.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013)
by AdvancedCarrot on Sunday May 22, 2022 @04:26AM
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Main thing is vastly better privacy. Messenger doesn't use E2E encryption and has no options for disappearing chats.
Facebook can and do read your messages at will.