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Well not yet, but the EU is working on it; The Digital Markets Act states that major messaging services must be interoperable. https://www.europarl.europa.eu

Well not yet, but the EU is working on it; The Digital Markets Act states that major messaging services must be interoperable. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20220315IPR25504/deal-on-digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-competition-and-more-choice-for-users https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/nl/press-room/20220315IP...

hbosch 4y ago
So by this act, should I be able to send a Twitter DM to your phone number if you don't have a Twitter account? What does interoperability mean here? Can I send Instagram messages from my Signal app?
- blantonl 4y ago
  By law the EU is going to require that when you make an Amazon Alexa announcement in your household that "dinner is ready" it will have to interoperate with Facebook messaging, Twitter DMs, Instangram messages, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessages, and SMS.
  - thrill 4y ago
    (the royal) We still demand all messages be sent to the nearest telegraph station, delivered by courier on horseback, and presented by a melodious singer who politely knocks on the door just post dinner time, TYVM.
- Hamcha 4y ago
  IANAL but I think the legal ramification is probably that big services won't be allowed to ban third party clients and services, i.e. Whatsapp waged war on unofficial clients for the longest time
- rchaud 4y ago
  Please read the link that the OP graciously provided: > EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request. Users of small or big platforms would then be able to exchange messages, send files or make video calls across messaging apps, thus giving them more choice.
Nomentatus 4y ago
It's lamentably common to pass laws that force the enforcement of previous more general laws, so please don't take the passing of a law as an admission or attestation that what the new law forbids was previously legal. In the U.S. this is going to be even more common, since post-Bork judicial idiocy has ex-facto sidelined much previous law; but the law is still there, and could still be enforced. It just isn't being enforced. Since judges can't easily be replaced, passing "repeater" laws that rule out bizarre interpretations of previous law is going to happen.

hbosch 4y ago

So by this act, should I be able to send a Twitter DM to your phone number if you don't have a Twitter account? What does interoperability mean here? Can I send Instagram messages from my Signal app?

blantonl 4y ago
By law the EU is going to require that when you make an Amazon Alexa announcement in your household that "dinner is ready" it will have to interoperate with Facebook messaging, Twitter DMs, Instangram messages, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessages, and SMS.
- thrill 4y ago
  (the royal) We still demand all messages be sent to the nearest telegraph station, delivered by courier on horseback, and presented by a melodious singer who politely knocks on the door just post dinner time, TYVM.
Hamcha 4y ago
IANAL but I think the legal ramification is probably that big services won't be allowed to ban third party clients and services, i.e. Whatsapp waged war on unofficial clients for the longest time
rchaud 4y ago
Please read the link that the OP graciously provided: > EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request. Users of small or big platforms would then be able to exchange messages, send files or make video calls across messaging apps, thus giving them more choice.

Nomentatus 4y ago

It's lamentably common to pass laws that force the enforcement of previous more general laws, so please don't take the passing of a law as an admission or attestation that what the new law forbids was previously legal. In the U.S. this is going to be even more common, since post-Bork judicial idiocy has ex-facto sidelined much previous law; but the law is still there, and could still be enforced. It just isn't being enforced. Since judges can't easily be replaced, passing "repeater" laws that rule out bizarre interpretations of previous law is going to happen.