Just a thought.

They already made Lite versions of Facebook and Instagram.

And a lot of the new functions (stories, screen share, and the avatar emojis) only come as bloat for users like me.

So i think they should make an official app that came without those “features”, having a priority on simplicity and data saving.

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    Unfortunately, I think they’re moving in the other direction. They just discontinued Messenger Lite, which I used. I think now that people in India and other countries have more powerful phones, they feel less urge to keep the Lite versions available

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      But Messenger Lite never made sense because Facebook Lite already had messaging support.

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        Many use the messager to stay in contact with people even if they don’t use facebook itself much, especially on phones so it absolutely did if you ask me!

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        I personally would greatly prefer to use Messenger via the Facebook mobile webapp, but that’s not an option, to my great chagrin. I wish they’d just let me use their product how I want to, but that’s not The Facebook Way.

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    They discontinued the messager Lite not that long ago so I seriously doubt that will ever happen, luckily I don’t use Whatsapp I guess but most people sadly more or less have to!

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      But Messenger Lite never made sense because Facebook Lite already had messaging support.

      And yeah, nobody knows what Meta really embraces anymore. (Aside from getting all your money and data).

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    I recently uninstalled Instagram and started using it in my browser where I can use uBlock to block features I don’t need like reels and the explore feed. WhatsApp is the last remaining Meta app on my phone, and I look forward to the day that I can just get rid of it.

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    1 year ago

    You’re right, they should make a Lite version. There is a version that could be said to be Lite, but it is only for a system called KaiOS.

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      I am still stunned that ages after Mozilla dropped their Firefox web OS stuff the third biggest phone OS (Kai) is still based on it’s remainings!

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        Well, Firefox was born out of Netscape’s remains so… history repeats itself.

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          There was a time when Mozilla was serious about competing rather than just surviving and it makes me a little sad that they droped basically all of that, Google still pays them a ton of money so it’s basically just greed that got them here! :(

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      theoretically that version could just work on other OSes since KaiOS apps are all PWA

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          I wouldn’t call it a fumble, it seems pretty successful in its target demographic

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              ohhh i thought they were still working on it i didn’t know it was an entirely separate project