It’s just not a battle I am willing to fight. Too many people I can’t contact without Whatsapp and none of them willing to swap.
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juniorneptune@lemmy.world 9 months ago
WhatsApp is a shithole. Communities, Channels, Payments, Avatars all these destroyed the simple chat app. Meta is aiming for a monopoly here.
Signal and Telegram pretty much useless if you don’t have your needful people on the platform.
RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 9 months ago
gogosempai@programming.dev 8 months ago
Thanks to EU, you’ll be able to contact these people on WhatsApp without using WhatsApp.
RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s great to know!
lattenwald@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thankfully I don’t have people I need on WhatsApp, but it took some convincing.
Nowadays I only have dentist and barbershop on WhatsApp, all my folks are on Telegram, including all work communications.
WhatsApp was always lacking features; WhatsApp web can’t replace a full featured desktop client which is a must have for me; and its mobile client is inconvenient in every possible way.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 9 months ago
WA does have a desktop client. Fuck that though.
LievitoPadre@feddit.it 9 months ago
Last time I checked it was a 600-800Mb monster that is just a wrapper of the web page
JGrffn@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s worse now, it’s an all out react native app, I believe. On windows, it’s hideous. Simple things such as sending attachments become a multiple-seconds-long waiting game; by the time I’m able to send a screenshot, my phone link has already transfered the clipboard from my pc to my phone, I have unlocked it and opened WhatsApp and sent the attachment through android instead. This has happened to me more times than I care to count.
There’s also this nasty input focus bug, where you sometimes have to tab out of the app entirely and tab back in for it to detect focus on textboxes.
Its like they’re intently taking steps back on WhatsApp as a whole, kind of reminiscent of Skype’s fall from grace.
juniorneptune@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fr! only reason why I prefer the webapp over client