Meta is hitting pause on the cross-messaging magic between Facebook and Instagram, three years after introducing the feature. Back in 2020, they made it easy for users on both platforms to shoot the breeze, with dreams of extending this camaraderie across all of Meta’s messaging apps. But the dream is over, as a recent update on the Instagram Help Center spills the beans that cross-platform chit-chat is biting the dust sometime in “mid-December 2023.” No specific date, though.