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I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers ar

I’m very excited about WhatsApp having to interoperate with other messengers. As far as I know this starts Monday. But I also read that most other messengers are not interested as it would hurt their users privacy. Does anyone know if interoperability with XMPP or Matrix will be possible?

MattJ100 3y ago
XMPP and Matrix already have WhatsApp bridges, though through they are not officially supported or accepted by WhatsApp. Hopefully what will change now is that such bridges can be updated to use officially-supported methods, which (if WhatsApp play nice) means they will be more reliable and user-friendly than they are today.
- bcye 3y ago
  Isn't the bigger issue that these bridges require you still to have a whatsapp account? So it's just a different frontend, but you're still bound by Meta's TOS, PP and data collection.
  - skydhash 3y ago
    It’s like sending an email to someone’s gmail address! Its content will be scanned, but yon don’t have to deal with Gmail running on your computer. With this, you can have a nicer client (especially desktop) that don’t have whatever unnecessary features WhatsApp wants to promote (like status and channels). Discord, Slack, Teams and Spotify are other services that are begging for alternative frontend.
HarrisonFisk 3y ago
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-messenger-messaging-interoperability-eu/ https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess...
- PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
  In fairness to Facebook this is a very well written and fair post. This is how the DMA should be done.
Arathorn 3y ago
https://element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/ https://element.io/blog/the-eu-digital-markets-act-is-here/ gives some answers on the Matrix side