Apparently Europe finally got Whatsapp to enable 3rd party chats making it easier to switch to more privacy friendly alternatives article However the only other app that currently works with it is “BirdyChat”??

Have anybody found any news about when serious alternatives will be integrated?

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      As they should, considering Meta would then have access to all that user data. They’re just fundamentally different systems.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
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      7 days ago

      Signal should be subject to the same law. So I hope all it takes is someone making a bridge that forces Signal to open up as well.

      • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I don’t want to chat with people on WhatsApp with Signal. I don’t want Meta linking my metadata. Interoperability will only keep people from switching to better platforms

        • sleen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Yes this “solution” is just a bandaid to the problem which is capitalism. All this is going to do is make these corpos look like they are doing something good - but in the end, all of this is just a blur.