To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

Meta ... can’t guarantee “what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages.”

I'm more concerned with what the first-party provider is doing with my sent or received messages when that first-party is Facebook!

Please Signal, use this opportunity. I really want to be on Signal AAAAH

I dislike when they say in news clips that Signal represents the “current gold standard” for E2EE chats, it doesn't, Signal is a helluva lot better than the commercial stuff that mines user data but there's stuff like SimpleX Chat that doesn't leak even metadata because it doesn't have it.

Still, this is a good thing, these megacorps have their iron grip on people because they have raised walls around their services making it painful for people to move to a different service, tearing down those walls can only help us all.

Does this mean third party apps will be able to interact with whatsapp?

Meta says that it will only allow third-party developers to use another protocol besides Signal, “if they are able to demonstrate it offers the same security guarantees as Signal.”

If matrix finally finishes implementing MLS, maybe they could convince meta to use it.

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Would this mean I could finally ditch what's app and use only Signal?

Is there a reason this requirement doesn't apply to iMessage as well?

@Mysteriarch I deeply hope that there will be some connection to Matrix in the future.