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Yes the DMA. WhatsApp has the skeleton code for it in place I think

At this point I just assume Meta, Google and Apple have my number due to people storing the number on their devices. Amazon also might have it because people might have paid me via Amazon Pay (and given it access to contacts).

Yes. I don’t endorse WhatsApp. What I meant is if you chat with 15 people out of which 5 use WhatsApp, only those 5 chats are potentially readable by Meta. Because those are the only chats which will get sent to Meta servers.

So you have the benefit that the other 10 chats are not readable by Meta.

Lmao my bad. Thanks I’ll read up about it.

Google has also kept RCS proprietary. Google shares the blame as well imo

True. However there are certain advantages

• WhatsApp gets only a part of your data (coz many people might be on different apps)
• You don’t have to run WhatsApp on your device so they can’t collect that data either

I know it’s not perfect but better than the current scenario and a step in the right direction

Oh wow. TIL! Any recommendws sources? I want to read the full coverage

I only heard of it because I follow Matrix blog.

I saw the technical discussions (if you are a tech person I would recommend watching those on YT) and it seems that EU is trying to find some middle ground where companies won’t have to incur a lot of losses but still be open and create a fair environment for newcomers.

I hope that the DMA gets passed in the EU. It’ll (hopefully) break the monopoly worldwide

Why do people have to pronounced it in any way? Why not say G-I-F? I’ve been saying it like that since before I knew about the huge debate💀

Oh thanks. I like Infinity I’ll follow it.

Infinity for Lemmy was developed?

Why do you want them to switch from Signal? Federation? Other than that Signal’s great. Idk specifically about Signal bridge but I’m in a room with Telegram and IRC bridged and both bridges work pretty well. The room was bridged to XMPP as well but XMPP bridge was weird (resent random messages sometimes) so we removed it. Give it a try though and if possible tell me how it works? I’m curious :p

EU’s Digital Markets Act might interest you :p

What did you find confusing about Element? The most confusing part for most people is the federation but since you’re on Lemmy, I assume that’s not the case for you.

Now that would be interesting :p

Yes but waiting to be told to shut down servers isn’t :p

I misread it as kills witch engineer and thought it would be a lot more exciting💀

The Indian UPI System is a pretty great for this. I wish more countries adopted it/built something similar instead of relying on corporations.