Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

Oh yeah PGP that's super practical 🙄

It's perfectly possible that the WhatsApp client app does use end to end encryption and the communication cannot be intercepted by anyone not even Meta. It's also perfectly possible that meta have been forced to add a back door to the WhatsApp app to make key recovery possible, or turn on sending a copy of all messages to a third party. Unless the source code and build chain have been audited, you can't trust the app.

WhatsApp uses the same encryption as Signal while iMessage uses its own system but if you ask anyone outside the US they’ll say WhatsApp it’s the greatest thing ever.

but the comment is >Never assume there's any privacy in a meta app so >People swear by Whatsapp's current encryption, as they should. It's really good. contradicts that quite directly

They don't have to worry about meta in many countries, they have to worry about the police saying unlock this now or get it back in 8 months after we do the forensics.

Im in Canada and am thankful kijiji is still around.

I still use Facebook to order from compagnies who don't take phone anymore. :(

Same. It's been the easiest for buying and selling. Literally no one uses craigslist or anything else in my area.

Fiance almost at the time. Never done anything transactionally. Just lost access to messages when it asked for a code that I never set up. Several of my other FB friends/family it happened with as well but it wasn't much of a loss there. I just wanted to save some from the girl that I was with so that I could make a memory book because she loved stuff like that and always did lil personal things for me.

Exactly what happened to Facebook. The feed changed from being your friend's recent activity to a million content farms, ads and rage bait. 

I think it was about a year ago (Feb 2025, I think). That’s when I noticed my engagement drop. Not a huge deal for me (amateur bird photographer sharing what I see 2-3 times a week), but I feel bad for people that need it for their actual businesses. Ngl, it is kinda sad to post a cool bird picture and have it get 5 likes whereas a year and a half ago it would’ve gotten a dozen or more.

There were three identifiable points in the last year and a half where they did something like an update and suddenly engagement would just collapse. I have 25,000 followers on my account and I would be lucky if even 5% of them saw a post. Now it's less than that. There was a point last year where one of the bigwigs that Instagram was like straight up laughing at an interview when somebody brought up. How much distress this was causing to people and small businesses.. I don't see things from a lot of the people that I follow very often. I know that it also punishes you if you aren't posting reels because they want to compete with tick tock so bad that the entire purpose of the app, sharing photos, is now discouraged.

Social media doesn't exist anymore. It's just interest media now, it shows you what it thinks you're interested in, not what you want to see.

For years, I’ve been hiding or blocking pages that aren’t my friends, so Facebook only shows my friends and groups. Every once in a while, it starts showing me random pages again, so I block them. After a couple of days, my feed is back to friends only.

and this encourages people to stop posting, as well. i send videos and pics to my extended family group chat now (using plain sms or whatever they're called now). it's a nice trick, isn't it, that by not showing anyone any content they've convinced people to pay Meta to 'boost' their posts.

I really hate it, because I use Instagram primarily to promote a small business, and the amount of time it takes to make this tiktok style short form video bullshit is way longer than it would take to just get nice photos of things. Like I design and produce physical products, there's not a whole lot of crazy things you can do with videos to promote those things, but the app demands I do it or it deprioritizes my stuff..

I've noticed these appearing constantly in my recommended accounts now, and it always says it has a "mutual follower" but it's some random profile picture I don't recognise.

Real people can't comment, to be fair. One of my friends made a video that used one of my songs (it's professionally released) and tagged me. I commented "Thank you for using my song!" and it was auto-moderated as "going against community standards."

I still use Facebook for business, but I'm getting really close to stopping. I was talking with some other people recently and I was asking them if they were even saying people who were under 30 on Facebook. You pretty much aren't.

No. We’re obviously talking about people who already use it

I did receive that message in Canada

WhatsApp uses AES256, which is quantum resistant. This "the quantum computers will crack all encryption" nonsense is basically all doomsaying and marketing.

Yeah, telegram quickly became a no go for me. I just remember people saying not to do WhatsApp anymore when FB bought it.

Unlikely, given the fact that Mark is a dumbass who has never had a good idea in his life. LifeLog was created by DARPA after 9/11. Congress got wind of the project and it was shelved, then eventually discontinued on Feb 4th, 2004. Facebook was launched on Feb 4th, 2004.

Yeah, you should learn where he got the money and the order to turn it into a worldwide data collection machine... You are too innocent (to keep it polite) if you think that's how he got where he is now.

Especially when the government can side-step the 4th amendment by purchasing your data from said tech companies and data brokers.

My comment is meant to be tongue in cheek. 

0/10 Troll. They must not sell Monster energy drinks in whatever country you're really shitposting from.