Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family

10•effectkai•1mo ago

It seems Meta recently migrated all Messenger chats to e2ee. But if you had created a secret conversation (e2ee) in the past then instead of migrating the existing chat Meta decided to archive and switch to the secret chat.

Since I only experimented with/created secret chats in the past with close friends and family, all my old conversations with years of history were archived with no path to restore.

This is a horrible UX experience and absolutely ridiculous that this design passed in Meta.

Comments

k310•1mo ago

"Social" media have gone from being abusive to actively user-hostile.

They have none of the benefits of ancient, dinosaur email.

raw_anon_1111•1mo ago

This is what I would expect. If it is e2e, how would Meta decrypt your old messages and reencrypt them? I guess it could do it client side. But that would be kind of crazy

sejje•1mo ago

Download/dump your account. Probably in there still.

citizenpaul•1mo ago

I knew the day would come that all these spying/advertising as a service companies would eventually betray all their users/products. What happens to chattel? They get slaughtered for money eventually no matter how good their lives seem while they are being plumped up.

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