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As far as I understand, the new EU Digital Markets Act [1] will support this - forcing big platforms to allow interoperability. Awesome for platforms like Matr
by jakecopp 5y ago
As far as I understand, the new EU Digital Markets Act [1] will support this - forcing big platforms to allow interoperability.
Awesome for platforms like Matrix [2] which are all about supporting federation and bridges to other services (such as Signal, which is hostile to federation [3]).
[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-sacrificing-privacy-matrix-and-the-dma https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-...
[2]: https://matrix.org https://matrix.org
[3]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
- stjohnswarts 5y agoNever heard of that. I don't see facebook not pulling out of a market requiring it to share posts and such, especially in private groups and whatnot. Seems like users won't like their posts going wider than facebook either.
- sofixa 5y agoFacebook can't afford to pull out of the EU, it's a massive market, and IMHO the cat will be out of the bag and other jurisdictions will follow suit with similar regulations anyways.
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- JNRowe 5y agoThere was a big discussion about that here too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30799567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30799567
- sofixa 5y agoTechnically Signal wouldn't be covered under the DMA ( they aren't even close to being big enough). But yep, that's the point of the new regulation and it's awesome. Forces interoperability and levels the playing field between the huge incumbents with moats and competitors. Oh and it will force Apple to allow third party app stores, so there's that too.