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Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead (beehaw.org)
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I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app.

Now I'm a little torn, having a Meta app on my phone is already bad, but having to downgrade to the bloated Messenger app? Not sure I will make a change. What are your thoughts?

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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Not incredibly surprising given how little it's been updated and how things like clicking links doesn't work. Definitely exhausted by how aggressively things are just getting worse now.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Yeah, both Messenger Lite and Facebook Lite are fucked. Post a photo or video on Facebook Lite and it's guaranteed to be blurry piece of shit. If it's shot horizontal, it's going to be low-res vertical with letterboxing on the top and bottom. I have to hop on the main app just to post a discernable video for my family.

    If I didn't live on the other side of the continent and Facebook were my only real lifeline to my friends and family, I wouldn't use it at all anymore. But now there's this sunken-cost fallacy shit on top of it all, and how I get daily memories from the deceased like my father and grandmother. "Hope you're having fun in Canada, love you, Gram". Some of these messages are still applicable today, and I don't know how to separate from that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    and I don’t know how to separate from that.

    Take screenshots, load them all into a folder and use some kind of gallery widget or app to show you one daily.

    I think I've seen calendars that will show you an image a day but I don't know how well you can set images to certain days, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    All you are saying is its too convenient for you to stop using it. What makes it less convenient is learning about alternative ways to meet the same ends.

    You'll find like a lot of others that giving up control to Facebook doesn't necessarily equate to the most convenient tool

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