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Mysteriarch ☀️ ( Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

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

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

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Mysteriarch ☀️ ( Mysteriarch@slrpnk.net )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol | TechCrunch
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Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging
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    That’s so short sided. Signal is useless if all your contacts only use WhatsApp.

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      • jherazob ( jherazob@beehaw.org ) 
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        It also does not coincide with most people

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          It’s up to us to sway them over!

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      Yeah I believe this to be a fallacy. If all your contacts use WhatsApp, they still haven’t grasped the concept of installing two applications side-by-side. Or they don’t fully understand why people are using signal over WhatsApp. If you fail both of those, congratulations, you’ve failed to be a self-aware tech user and you’re now demoted to a braindead consumer.

      I know, mind blowing right? Point is, society in general should not accept others forcing you to keep the WhatsApp monopoly in tact, which is exactly what’s happening here.

      It will take some time but eventually adoption will spread, even among your contacts. It’s just a matter of critical mass, and there are some pretty compelling features within Signal that make it a worthy replacement.

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        Most people are indeed technically not savvy and don’t understand why they would need more than WhatsApp and Instagram on their phone.

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