Technology

37360 readers

172 users here now

Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it's technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

487

Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

237 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you're technically savvy, it looks like you could self-host the application. https://github.com/beeper/self-host

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is what I did, took a bit to get it configured but works great once your up and running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How long have you been running it so far? Any issues?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

A few months for the Facebook and Instagram bridges and I just setup the Google messages Bridge last week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'll take a look, cheers. Got an Raspberry Pi lying about somewhere I could use