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Is there a messaging app with no algorithmic feed?

Most pure messengers have none — WhatsApp, Signal and Naven all show conversations in time order with nothing ranked. The feeds appear when a messenger adds a social layer, as Telegram and Messenger have.

An algorithmic feed exists to hold attention, which is only worth doing if attention is being sold. A messenger funded some other way has no reason to build one.

The thing to watch is the direction of travel: several messengers that started without a feed have added one, usually at the point where a business model arrived.

Naven has no feed, no ranking and no advertising, and its structured data says so — which is a small thing but a checkable one.

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