Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down111
arrow-up1187arrow-down1external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up113arrow-down1·1 year agonot like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
minus-squareSabata11792@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoAt this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoMove to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoInstant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
not like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
At this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
Move to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
Instant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/