I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app.

Now I’m a little torn, having a Meta app on my phone is already bad, but having to downgrade to the bloated Messenger app? Not sure I will make a change. What are your thoughts?

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    7·
    1 year ago

    Are you using video/audio call functionality? If not, get on the beeper waiting list. It supports connecting to facebook messenger, but it doesn’t support video/audio calls.

    • sab@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      What keeps this from being blocked by the service providers like any other third party app?

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, all file attachmemts. See chart here.

        Some quirks that I think are notable:

        • you can’t create new FB chats. To message someone, you must have already messaged them in the past. You can’t make group chats, but can reply to existing ones.
        • There isn’t a thumbs up button like on facebook. I just add a thumbs up emoji reaction to the comment as a replacement. If the other person thumbs up’s, it comes through as an image.
        • the above linked table mentions no support for “captioned media messages”. I’m not sure what that means (is it snapchat style image with text over it?) or how to do it but maybe this matters for you

        Otherwise FB messenger is one of the better supported platforms on beeper in terms of feature support.

    • Suppoze@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for the tip, I’ll sign up. I occasionally use the audio call functionality, but shouldn’t be an issue.