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by oblio 2016 days ago
True, but in every chat app ever that I've used, nothing is muted by default.

And the reasoning is quite simple, for the average user who doesn't change any default value, a by-default-muted chat app is useless. There would be no messaging as far as a regular user would be concerned. What good is a chat app where you can't chat? :-)