Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
  If you make it the default, they will.

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  • pet1t@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    just like they forced reels on everyone by pushing it in the algorithm to later say “see! everyone wants reels now, they don’t want photos anymore!”

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the default on Messenger so I’m not sure why it wasn’t made the default on Instagram.

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• mrnobody@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Next, WhatsApp loses this “rarely used” feature also

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• Strive7307@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since when did Instagram support E2E? I didn’t even know, lol.

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  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

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• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Whereas I got rid of my instagram that barely used.

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• GutterRat42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You had to manually turn it on. It was buried in settings, and it created 2 separate chats. Of course nobody used it. I only found out about it a month ago

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I‘m surprised they even had that. The average Instagram user probably doesn‘t even know what that means.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1. it was encrypted?

  2. it had to be activated?!?

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  • Unsealed9041@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’d never make it default when it costs them a thousanth of a penny per message.

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• senna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s really interesting that even with occasional usage of the app not once has this setting been mentioned or brought up for me. Why remove it?

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No point supporting it if no one uses it.

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    • senna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think I phrased it wrong. I meant more like why don’t they at least try to promote the feature instead of just outright removing it? Feels like they never gave it a fair chance.

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• phutatorius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m sure that’s the real reason. And all the convenience for spying on users to collect data for targeted advertising is just a side effect.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry guys, my fault. Zuck just thought my beautiful dick pics shouldn’t be hidden from the world any longer

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zuckerborg still needs to learn about humanity, so he needs every data available downloaded into his android brain.

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• nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone would use it if that’s just the only way it worked. I don’t need to turn e2ee in Signal on. It’s always on. There’s no way to turn it off. So, everyone uses it. The only reason to make people jump through hoops to turn it on is if you don’t actually want people using it.

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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  blocked so many bot accounts, think i broke something. permaban without usual ‘community standards’ excuse. fuc zuc

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