Who cares?
Their wallets
What the damn is happening to the internet lately?!
Enshittification left and right. Prime capitalism.
To be honest, the way Telegram does it is fine. I guess most of the users didn’t need the feature anyway
ZZZ I like it as they can monetise a feature I’ll never use. Perfect and preferable
Why can’t we have simple messaging app built for privacy, with good call and video options? Maybe a few emojis would be cool as well.
Signal
Of course, avid user.
You can even use stories in signal, though I turned it off in settings and have forgotten since launch that it exists until this post reminded me.
At least I don’t need to pay to turn it off.
Good, I don’t want them anyway.
Sounds like a business savvy approach. You’ll see people who want to make content and promote themselves on the platform subscribing.
It’s maybe a 1 month exclusive as I got a message stating that when I tried to upload a story