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by plaguuuuuu 3543 days ago
People already experience the cage. Plenty of my friends don't want to run the FB messenger app and give it permissions on their phones, but FB forces people to use the app on mobile and disables the function on the website.

Same deal with third party chat apps. I have to install 3-4 separate apps to talk to different people because everyone's using a separate app and there's no integration between them, they don't speak the same protocol. And I would much rather not have WhatsApp but if I deleted it I'd have to leave a few group chats.