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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like it’s time for me to start investigating a move to a different cross-platform chat app. The enshitification continues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix would be the perfect solution if it was more widely adopted.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Matrix is fine but it collects a large amount of metadata

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