Thank you for added context ! As long as there are alternatives to Messenger chat i think it’s okay to have it.

The image email has is the one if an old school slugish administration, probably the one physical mails had when emails came around.

When I send an email to anyone, be it a company or an individual, I expect a reply in the next few days. But in chat I’m expecting a reply in a couple of hours. So I’d be much more inclined to a conversation via chat given the option.

Also I’m not certain my experience with younger people and email is representative, but from what I’ve seen younger generations are not the most at ease with email.

I think what’s lacking here is the choice. Messenger is more appealing to a vast amount of people, but to some it might be the opposite, and those people need an lternative.

Yes it’s a shame and I wish it was done another way, but also what alternative do they have ?

I’m gonna be the devil’s advocate here and say that if your goal is to have people reach out, you want to make it as painless as posible . The majority of the population has or had a facebook / messenger account making the process to start a chat a simple as a click in most cases. If people had to download a thrid party app or register on yet another plateform, they would probably not start a new chat.

With the recent events this makes it even more urgent to move away from meta products, but the EU being as big as it is, this will take some time…

Thanks that’s good to know :)

I just read a bit about it and it sounds quite interesting with the community aspect of it all. I’ll give it a deeper look later, thanks !

AI users implies they are deployed and managed by the a company and can be configured to push ideas and agendas.

This is quite a big problem imo…

What are the consequences of this particular patent expiring ?