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by Abishek_Muthian 1887 days ago
> I will never, ever, understand the "online" status feature.

Fun fact: WhatsApp was initially just that i.e. It showed status of its users online and people started using it to share messages leading up to the development of full-fledged chat app.

We may be from the same country, Where peer pressure to have a WhatsApp account is so high that friends and relatives get offended if you don't have one.

So I have isolated WhatsApp to a android VM, it sends me an encrypted email of the incoming messages, lets know the sender the same and that they need to message me on Signal if expect faster reply[1].

[1] https://abishekmuthian.com/send-and-receive-whatsapp-message...