• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      The chat system is there so nerds can hit up the hot chick who posted a painting in /r/pics asking for feet pics

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      I wrote a comment outlining my very specific and somewhat surprising immigration situation, and someone asked me if I would mind answering some questions because they were by chance writing an article about people who fit my exact situation.

      I gladly would have answered whatever questions they had, but they asked me via that dumb fucking chat function, so I only saw a year after they sent me the message.

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        I hated the chat function. DMs make sense, that stupid chat never did. And as I didn’t really browse Reddit from my desktop (it was always a mobile app for me) and I used Boost, I never consistently checked my chats.

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          Yeah I really disliked it, bots were always trying to chat with me (also follow). I finally had to disable it. Direct messages are fine, but if they ever add following or chat here, the first thing I’ll do is disable it. I mean if I want to chat (which is rare), I’ll just head over to Discord.

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          I almost could have sworn that boost had it… I remember being frustrated that I couldn’t get the chat pop up to go away.

          I could easily be misremembering too, though.

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            No I’m pretty sure that was one of the things the Apollo dev was looking forward to with paid API.

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      Of course. The 12 year olds had to send you a death threat somehow?

      Seriously, every time I got one, I checked the account and it was someone asking OP models how they are doing and posts on /askreddit like “How to meet girls?”.