Submitted 3 weeks ago by Ludrol@szmer.info to [deleted]
engineering.fb.com/…/whatsapp-messenger-messaging…
Last year The Digital Markets Act was all the rage! The Interoperability was coming! And now year later I know zero apps that interoperate^1^ with meta. Is there any app that implemented that?
[1] yes we are on the fediverse and all that entails.
I’m in the same boat. What I’d give to keep contact with my family without being forced to use the WhatsApp app.
fuck meta. i dont want anything interoperable with it.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but only for bigger cooperations.
As in, extinguish them. Make it far more attractive to not be at a big soulless corpo.
You probably dont want things to actually interoperate with Meta, they’re not exactly trustworthy
I guess it only works on paper ? 🧐
It works.
You wrote your comment on a platform that is proof that interoperability works.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately none of the bigger players seem to have any interest in making use of the interoperability.
And I think Meta has made it extra hard for smaller ones.
mitram@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Aren’t they forced to? I thought that was the whole point
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
They are forced to offer it. But they’re not forced to use it.
If Signal wanted to federate with WhatsApp, WhatsApp would be forced to open up. But Signal doesn’t want to.