[firen777]

> The Chinese government has direct access to the WeChat backend

Oh dear, I need to rant about this.

Everyone and their grandma know in their guts that the ccp keep every single thing you ever send. So why on earth do wechat not back up your convo (a bog standard feature that is available to even e2ee messengers) when you need to switch to a new phone? Yes, I know you can transfer data locally (with unintuitive process since wechat does not support simultaneous login on multiple devices) but what happens if your old phone outright died? I already relinquish all my privacy to the overlord so can they at least give us back some usability instead of this archaic pos?

Just need to vent my recent painful experience.

[giancarlostoro]

...why do you use it if there's a million superior services that do not do that and transfer your history correctly?

[mrWiz]

I'm going to guess that at least some of the people firen777 wants to message don't use those services.

[tailspin2019]

Likely *can’t use those services

[giancarlostoro]

Fair enough... Unfortunately...

[firen777]

Network Effect is a bitch.