Messaging Interoperability: WhatsApp enables third-party chats for users in Europe
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The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to
  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Source is Meta itself, so perhaps not a good overview of the story.

    The two third parties mentioned have not even launched yet. .And the “Join the waitlist” buttons on their websites look suspiciously similar.

    Would be interesting to understand better what’s going on here. Lots of us are waiting patiently for a way to interact with the billions of Whatsapp users without accepting (as they carelessly do) a contractual relationship with Meta.

    • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if those companies (birdychat and haiklet) were developed by Facebook themselves. Going to their websites literally only talks about WhatsApp interop as if they were demo projects.