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WhatsApp and the domestication of users
(seirdy.one)
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The EU Digital Market Act is in place and WhatsApp was considered a gatekeeper for messaging so they will probably be forced to open up to other messaging networks, hopefully breaking the network effect
Well, there's a question of how exactly are they going to do this.
XMPP? Everybody who had XMPP has dropped it. It's not at all obsolete, but the fact is that companies don't like it.
Closed federation between friends with some proprietary protocol (possible with XMPP too, though)? Well, so I'll be able to write to WhatsApp users from Facebook Messenger or Viber. Doesn't change much, TBF.
I mean, I can imagine them setting something up for identities and private messages from them going back and forth. But practically important features would likely still be locked.