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PSA: Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

I switched to exclusively using Mastodon and Glass. I donate to the operating costs for one, and pay for the other.

I choose not to be the product.

Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube can take a walk.
 
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CasinoOwl said:
The world would be much better off if we all stopped using SOCIAL MEDIA. They're all detrimental for your general wellbeing. I'd love if some company would come up with a social media site that was just a feed of my friends and family. I'd even pay for it.
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There, FTFY
 
Slix said:
What a weird thing to do in the current state of the internet. Everything private should be encrypted and private. Taking that option away is so bad.
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They need a new data source for training AI’s. The internet has already been scraped models ago. Easy win for Meta, yet another needless privacy protection removed for regular people.
 
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CasinoOwl said:
The world would be much better off if we all stopped using Meta products. Facebook is boring. Instagram is fake. I'd love if some company would come up with a social media site that was just a feed of my friends and family. I'd even pay for it.
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Bluesky is great and I love all the controls it gives users for blocking and curating feeds!
 
CalMin said:
"If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product."

There is one clear motive for this and it is not public safety. They are going to be monetizing DMs - plain and simple.
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And if you are paying for the product your also the product.
 
Instagram was fun back in the day when it was photography focused. But like all other social media platforms, it just turned into an ad-based cesspool of self-obsessed and self-glorifying narcissistic grifters who push either their (fake) versions of reality, or their warped ideologic views/disinformation.

I fully deleted all my social media accounts a couple of years ago and will only interact with anonymous and text-based platforms. None of these tech and or social media companies can be trusted with our personal information and photos. This was true several years ago, and even more so today as their unprecedented consolidated wealth and power has grown to dangerous levels, and it's only going to get worse as the tech/media/conglomerate oligarchy expands.
 
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MacRumors said:
In March, a spokesperson for Meta told The Guardian that the decision to abandon encryption was due to low uptake. "Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months," the spokesperson said. "Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp."

Meta has come under sustained pressure over the years from law enforcement and child safety groups to remove encryption, but there's likely more to it than that. With Meta able to see messages between users, it could potentially run advertising algorithms or train chatbots on their contents.
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I must be losing it, and/or Meta and the government don't have common sense.

First off, end-to-end encryption should be automatically implemented in messages. It shouldn't be an "opt in" feature.

Second, why is anyone under the age of 18 allowed to use Instagram? "Child Safety Groups" shouldn't have a say, and neither should law enforcement.

Third, if Meta wants to make money, they can start charging a subscription fee, which would hopefully put a permanent drain on Facebook and make it disappear forever.
 
Never started and do not ever plan to be on AI related anything as long as possible. Not on any social networks either.
 
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