• drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago
    • It’s Facebook

    • It didn’t work on PC until very recently

    • It’s closed as fuck source. They went as far as sending cease and desists to third party client developers.

    • It’s tied down to phone number and shares it with everyone you talk to

    • It’s bolted down to gdrive

    • Only boomers use it to send trashy GIFs to each other

    That’s about all I have, but I’ve never actually used it. Maybe someone else could chime in with more reasons, but for me those are already enough to stay away from it as far as possible.

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      7 days ago

      It didn’t work on PC until very recently

      Wrong. It had an official webapp since forever.

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        Wrong. The webapp was (still is?) just a glorified remote to a phone app, and would cease to function if you turn off the phone.