WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…
Anything Meta touches should be considered suspicious. Especially when it comes to privacy.
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They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it’s solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people IRL might actually have it.
I wonder how they’ve choose these platforms. Haiket.com doesn’t even come out by lookin it up on duckduckgo.
BirdyChat is under limited access. Must wait in waitlist or have an invite from someone already in. Plus they say on their site its “access is limited to professionals”.
Also, obviously, none of these are foss.
And birdychat is professional only.
Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they’re not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way
Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.
Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?
Element uses the Matrix open standard which supports bridges. I don’t know if the WhatsApp bridge uses the web interface or API for the PC desktop app, but that one is working for quite some time already.
For people not wanting to configure it all from scratch there are already pre-build complete packages bundling up all your usual messengers in one location/app like Beeper.
Still same to me.
fucking finally!
