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The bloat is starting to annoy me. Who asked for stories? How do I get rid of the annoying prompt at the top of the app?
Its basic-ness was one of the original reasons I liked it.
They add loads of bullshit but they still won't add the option to disable read-receipts.
Sounds like it’s time for me to start investigating a move to a different cross-platform chat app. The enshitification continues.
Matrix would be the perfect solution if it was more widely adopted.
Matrix is fine but it collects a large amount of metadata