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EU regulations are likely to force WhatsApp is to open their servers to Matrix soon (www.youtube.com)

submitted 9 months ago by uis to c/technology

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During Matrix FOSDEM talk it was mentioned that there is already working bridge that preserves E2EE.

EU, I belive in you!

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[–] abhibeckert 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

I wouldn't say "force". Meta is all in on being open these days and they're going in that direction even when they're not required to:

my view is that the more that there’s interoperability between different services and the more content can flow, the better all the services can be

[...]

it was fine to have these systems that people felt a little more locked into, but I think for the mature state of the ecosystem, I don’t think that that’s going to be where it goes

-- Mark Zuckerberg

WhatsApp wasn't the first to open up but that makes sense given it has a few billion active users and an open E2EE encryption protocol is really difficult to implement.

[–] uis 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Maybe. Still WA seems the only messager EU cares about.

[–] filister 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

WhatsApp is very popular in West Europe, but Viber is more popular in East Europe and that one is currently riddled with ads and annoying pop-ups.

[–] uis 1 points 9 months ago

Right, forgot about them.

[–] Asudox 2 points 9 months ago

That's because WA is very popular in the EU.

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