Comment by mfashby

Comment by mfashby 4 days ago

Force interoperability one way or another. WhatsApp is a closed system, if I want to use an alternative I'm stuck with adversarial interoperability, so stuff like Beeper (which is great, but...) which might get my account banned. Or waiting for some legislation to force WhatsApp to open it's API and let me interact with my contacts there without being locked into their apps

darrenf 4 days ago

There is legislation in the EU, and BirdyChat announced compatibility.

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whats...

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jraph 4 days ago

BirdyChat, the existence of which we all first became aware at the same time as that legislation and which nobody can use yet, only join a waitlist... :-)

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- aaravchen a day ago
  
  And apparently requires explicit WhatsApp user opt-in to be available. Meta is of course going to maliciously comply as best they can, so they've made sure interoperability is off by default and requires a specific opt in.
  
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