Meta killing off Instagram, Messenger cross-platform chatting

Meta plans to end support for cross-app messaging between Facebook Messenger and Instagram, the social media biz quietly announced in a pair of help page updates.  Beginning sometime in the middle of December, cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram will cease to function. For users of one or the other apps, …

[navarac]

The End?

At last! The demise of Social Media? No but it should be hobbled.

[TheFifth]

Yay, interoperability!

I really hope the EU pushes all these services to interoperate. I currently have so many messengers installed on my machine because one client insists on using WhatsApp, another on Telegram, another LinkedIn, another Signal, another wants Slack, and on and on it goes.

I've just discovered Beeper, which is great for pulling all of these services into a single app. It's not true interoperability, but at least I don't have to hunt through five different apps every time a message comes in. Also, it behaves more like a proper native app than most of the other combination messengers I've seen, which normally are just Electron apps that display the messenger's web interface in a tab. Beeper is a good stop gap until I can use a single service that can talk to all of the others.

It's great until that one client who insists on only calling via WhatsApp and never by phone...

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: Yay, interoperability!

Wow, I don't. I hope it's at least opt-in. Forced interoperability would be a disaster for security.

[Michael Wojcik]

So true. So true.

it will be even easier to stay connected without thinking

Rarely do we see Meta sum up its mission so concisely.

[Harmon20]

marks matter

The headline punctuation is all wrong. That comma makes it look like it is saying that Meta is killing Instagram, and it is killing off Messenger cross-platform chatting, two things. I clicked into the article to try to understand why I did not hear the deafening roar of the masses at the death of Instagram this morning, only to find out that it was just some mechanical tidbits in the FB ecosystem getting killed off. That comma should have been a hyphen to indicate one thing and not two: "Meta killing off Instagram-Messenger cross-plaform chatting"