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Possibly related: Meta is removing cross-platform chats between Instagram and Messenger [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528306

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Interesting, I thought the plan was to finally make all three Meta messengers interoperable with end-to-end encryption.

I wonder what changed. Maybe testing showed that people actually prefer them to be separate?

That was an insane idea that was only put forward as a hedge against someone breaking them up.

Imo maybe it's bc of eu regulations

What are the implications?

Daily active users are going to grow on both platforms.

Let's consider you have Instagram users on one-side, and Facebook users on one-side.

As long as you have at least one contact using only Facebook (like your parents), then you have to be active on both platforms in order to talk to your contacts.

If the two platforms would be unified, then you would be active only on Instagram for example.

or you would leave one of them.

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