Fixed that for you.
No it won't.
My sister was angered when I quit whatsapp (and facebook), asking me reasons why and if it was because I didn't like her. Told her I like my privacy. Haven't heard of her and a lot of other family since who only like to communicate through social media. Good.
I like SMS and Signal, only people that care for me are using that because I asked them to.
I’m there with you on the ideals, after all here I am on Lemmy (and mastodon fwiw) with Reddit and TwitterX deleted.
But, everybody I am close to in everyday life is a normie for lack of a better term. I don’t have to use Facebook regularly, for example, but there is a practical value to just having it available and checking notifications from time to time.
Kind of like how I’m looking through some code in Linux at work today, but it’s running in a VM on my Microsoft/O365 equipped PC. Much like with Facebook, factors outside my control necessitate using it, so I accept it without stressing myself.
I’m not trying to argue or convince you to change your ways though! FLOSS and privacy need awareness and advocacy, and therefore need strong outspoken supporters!
only people that care for me are using that because I asked them to.
That logic works both ways. You don't care about them enough to use WhatsApp/Facebook it seems to me.
WhatsApp can eat a crap
I won't use it either
The fact that iMessage got the exemptions underpins the entire act. I would any day switch to Signal, if there is 1:1 interoperability b/w the platforms.
@TheMadnessKing @floppy in Europe for most people iMessage is just the SMS app. Even though it pisses me off that Apple got away with it, having WhatsApp to comply with this is just huge. Everyone here uses WhatsApp, and now I won't be forced to leave Signal anymore.
iMessage is not considered a gatekeeper in Europe because pretty much nobody uses it. That's why it's extempted.
Apple just claimed an exception. It's still up to the EU to determine whether it is actually exempt or not.
Nobody here uses it though
Yes. Thankfully.
It's because there's not enough people in the EU actually using it.
It's really on American regulators to hold American companies accountable if they abuse their dominant position in the American market to the detriment of American consumers.
They got a exception because npbody uses that insecure garbage here, everyone uses Whatsapp tho so this makes a lot of sense!
Cool so I can decide to use Signal for privacy reasons and if the other party uses WhatsApp all my chats with them are read by Meta? What is the point?
No, it's still E2EE. Meta can't read it as far as anyone knows. Meta will know that the other person has you in their contacts (they already know this) and that they are messaging you, that's it.
Meta writes the software that runs on the other end, and it's closed source. Therefore for all we know, the message is end-to-end encrypted, and the moment it is decrypted on the other end Meta can send it back to their servers or use it for advertising. Unless the client at the end is open source and audited, E2E doesn't mean much imo
Well, I think you're the only one who thinks that E2EE doesn't mean much.
No I think you've missed their point. E2EE is end-to-end encryption, as in the message can't be intercepted in the middle but it's unencrypted at the end so you can read it. Because the WhatsApp app is closed-source you don't know that it doesn't immediately read the message and send the content to Facebook. It probably doesn't, but it could! E2EE itself means that some third party can't read your message in transit, though to be fair closed-source again means we just have to trust Facebook when they say WhatsApp uses E2EE.
I did get their point and what I'm saying is that back doors like this are discussed all the time and as of now, there's no proof that they exist. To the contrary, we have information confirming that content of E2E encrypted messages is not available to government agencies. Claiming otherwise without proof is simply spreading disinformation.
Not a fucking chance!
I setup my own matrix instance and ran a few bridges on it, so I don't need WhatsApp thanks
How does that solve communication with people that are exclusively on whatsapp?
This is the way
Eww no get that trash outta here
And this is where I wonder, how long until Matrix servers preemptively defederate from WhatsApp?
Probably won't. WhatsApp is already huge. Threads was a new platform with artificially inflated user numbers.
Whatsapp? What year is this? 2015?
edit: get some real problems yall
WhatsApp is easily the most used chat app outside the US and has never gone away. I live in South America and it's HUGE here, specially since IPhones didn't caught on down here, so we don't use whatever app the US public uses.
Man I wish I could live in the no iPhone world.
You never heard about the WhatsApp Empire? 
whatsapp is huuuge in India too, literally default messasing and calling app
I can assure you, it won't for me. The only people I ever see using it IRL are meth heads and prostitutes lol
You run with an interesting crowd.
Does anyone know what level of interoperability is required? Like basic text, pictures, emoji... or every feature including things like location sharing?
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.
wrong
Whatsapp? More like whatdafuck
Whoa this is bonkers! Would be great if all apps supported RCS as a fallback
I wonder if WhatsApp is going to make a white list of compatible App or if they just open an API or document a protocol...
Anyway, I found it awesome.
If someone don't want to chat with a WhatsApp user it's always possible too.
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!
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