I would skip the WhatsApp. It’s trash. Fight me.
Enshitification
Welcome to Enshitification
A community for everyone who didn't realise it was spelled 'enshittification'.
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
I would skip the WhatsApp. It’s trash. Fight ~~me~~ hundreds of million people for whom WhatsApp is the de facto standard for instant messaging and calls.
FTFY. I was in Bali this summer, everyone uses WhatsApp. Spent three days in an upscale hotel, on the check-in form they specifically ask for your WhatsApp number, which they use for everything: room service, special requests, restaurant and spa bookings, ...
My phone constantly complains that such-and-such won't work unless I enable Google Play Services. (and yet I still don't do that.)
Whatsapp now refuses to work if your phone js rooted or you don't have Gapps.
And I refuse to use WhatsApp, screw Facebook.
Why would you use whatsapp? If you'e going to all this trouble to get Zuck and the Googleplex out of your phone, why go right back to them?