SUMMARY

  • The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
  • The EU’s Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
  • WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
  • Carlos Solís
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    141 year ago

    And this is where I wonder, how long until Matrix servers preemptively defederate from WhatsApp?

    • @jackoid@lemm.ee
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      61 year ago

      Probably won’t. WhatsApp is already huge. Threads was a new platform with artificially inflated user numbers.

    • Fushuan [he/him]
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      21 year ago

      Why though? To avoid users leaving Signal for Whatsapp? if you need to chat with someone through matrix into whatsapp, right now you laready have whatsapp installed. I prefer to talk to whatsapp users from a more secure app, thanks.