Meta "deletes" years of conversations with friends/family

10 points effectkai | 6 comments | 13 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.591s | source | bottom

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.

1. k310 ◴[13 Dec 25 16:21 UTC] No.46255673[source]▶
"Social" media have gone from being abusive to actively user-hostile.

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

2. ◴[13 Dec 25 16:42 UTC] No.46255872[source]▶
3. raw_anon_1111 ◴[13 Dec 25 18:14 UTC] No.46256596[source]▶
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
4. sejje ◴[13 Dec 25 22:30 UTC] No.46258824[source]▶
Download/dump your account. Probably in there still.
5. citizenpaul ◴[13 Dec 25 22:49 UTC] No.46258992[source]▶
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.