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submitted 1 year ago by floppy@rabbitea.rs to c/android@lemdro.id

SUMMARY

  • The EU has identified WhatsApp as a gatekeeper in the messaging industry and has given it a few months to enable interoperability with other apps.
  • The EU's Digital Markets Act aims to promote fair competition and give consumers more options for alternative services.
  • WhatsApp has already begun working on interoperability with other apps, potentially allowing smaller players like Signal to compete more fairly.
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[-] QuantumEyetanglement@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Whoa this is bonkers! Would be great if all apps supported RCS as a fallback

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[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I have a whatsapp because my dad wanted to be able to call me without international long distance fees. He's called once and I get endless amounts of spam. I'll be seeing him in a couple of weeks, and I can hopefully switch him to LINE (what everyone uses here) and get rid of this app for all and get the last cancer of Meta out of my personal life.

[-] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

LINE is the worst for spam though.

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[-] jack@monero.town 3 points 1 year ago

WhatsApp is fundamentally bad and anti-consumer because it is proprietary. When people are not allowed to understand, change and redistribute the source code, the people will ALWAYS be milked and abused in some way. Trust me. LINE is also closed source and unfree, so it would only be a matter of time until that company fucks you up and you want to switch to another messenger. The most popular open source/ free messenger would be Signal. Conceptually the most promising one in my opinion is SimpleX Chat, if you want to be a bit more adventurous

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[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 4 points 1 year ago

I will finally be able to replace fucking SMS with a few people that simply won't switch to Signal, I simply won't use Whatsapp and that did cause some security issues till now!

[-] el_bhm@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whatsapp? What year is this? 2015?

edit: get some real problems yall

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[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Whatsapp? More like whatdafuck

[-] LISI_III@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Compactor9679@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can assure you, it won't for me. The only people I ever see using it IRL are meth heads and prostitutes lol

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