I hope that if this happens there will be an option to block any type of contact/message coming from WhatsApp
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps
Submitted 9 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/
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chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
TxzK@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Does that mean I can send messages to WhatsApp using Signal?
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 9 months ago
WhatsApp, Google Messenger, Facebook Messenger and Skype all implement the same Signal protocol.
The article’s title is misleading, and did not explain how it would work at all.
Like, will the protocol also add logins for different services? I remember having a messenger app a while ago (Trillian), which would merge MSN, ICQ and other chat platforms into a single experience.
I can sorta get how DMs will work. Group chats may be much harder to implement.
ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I had all but forgotten about Trillian! Man, that was huge in my circles back in my youth. Such nostalgia reading that name again.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Also to add a very important question: will Facebook then be able to harvest all of our Signal metadata like they do for WhatsApp?
ad_on_is@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Trillian? A while ago? Maaaan, that’s almost two decades ago… Nostalgia just hit me
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I recommend seeing talks from Matrix protocol that explain potencial and doable solutions.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Only if Signal decided to apply for connection, which I doubt they’ll do.
TxzK@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
It would be cool tho if you could. I don’t wanna use WhatsApp but I’m basically forced to because everyone else in my family uses it.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I hope it will.
starman@programming.dev 9 months ago
So if Meta <-> Signal interoperability gets implemented and I have a hypothetical group chat with 5 Signal users and 1 WhatsApp/Messenger user, all the messages would be sent to Meta?
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Simple solution to that is not to add people. Am assuming should that happen Signal will add highlight of sorts to warn about users from other networks.
jdaxe@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Does that matter if it’s end-to-end encrypted?
starman@programming.dev 9 months ago
How do I know that WhatsApp isn’t performing client-side scanning of messages? Meta did it before, on Messenger
7777AKA@lemm.ee 9 months ago
EU is making Big Tech Based 😁
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I hope Threema is gonna be able to interoperate with WhatsApp as I’d love to ditch that app.
Just a setting preventing new people from your contacts to write to you on WhatsApp would be great. I only keep it because of some groups I can’t leave…
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I’ve updated the post here to include the original posting and preview I got it from, which shows :
Swiss app Threema says it won’t become interoperable
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Oh shit that’s bad news.
I guess the technical side was complicated…
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Is this part of Embrace/Extend?
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 9 months ago
Do you think it will be possible to do this in matrix? Without bridges obviously
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Without bridges only if WhatsApp incorporate Matrix protocol. There must be something to translate different APIs/protocols.
sramder@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I stopped reading at “…full details will be released in May.”
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s been a long time coming and it’s still coming…
I want this a lot
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I’ve been looking for info about this for months, as it was obviously a part of the EU’s anti-gatekeeping legislation from last year, but I couldn’t find any info. Specifically I wanted to know which apps would be able to communicate with WhatsApp - Telegram? Signal? Something else?
And now that there’s an article, it’s behind a paywall…
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 months ago
So two Facebook products are interoperable with each other? Wow…
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 months ago
WhatsApp will allow any app to communicate with them. But wether or not any do is entirely up to those other apps. I think there’s very little chance Signal will ever interoperate with anything for example.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Adium… They named an app ‘the element of advertisement’?
rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Adium… now that’s a name I have not heard for a while. Used to have a super nice customized version to chat with friends on various platforms. It was amazing. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
coolmojo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
archive.ph/XXoKh
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
there’s no paywall, the whole article is readable. but in summary, they don’t know yet which apps will have this implemented, if any.
timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
They give you only so many free articles per month, I had to circumvent a paywall as well