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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Who gives the tiniest of shits.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, a lot of people use Messenger to contact other people, so I guess they do?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Contact other people? That’s foreign to me.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no it’s him, the Algorithm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Your account has been temporarily deactivated for review.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My brother lives in another country and WhatsApp is the platform that pretty much everyone he knows uses for free international communications

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Telegram, Signal, KK, Wire... You have options

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ahhh yes, let me just get all of my brothers' business' account's followers to switch to telegram. I'm sure they'll all be willing....

"Just use something else, duh!" is ignorant. Not everyone uses social media to just post memes and argue with strangers. Some people use it for making money, or for access to support resources, or for a specific community that is important to their well-being.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My entire family uses Facebook Messenger. I like having communication with my family.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

In my experience, Signal has great uptime. This might be the moment to get them all to shift.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

We have family chat on Messenger, so that was a bummer