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by nubg 192 days ago
This seems pretty big news?

Perhaps the start of instant messaging becoming more like email?

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Start of facebook's malicious compliance.
Is there something new here? Because it seems the same as the DMA compliance they had to do in early 2024?

See e.g.: WhatsApp Messaging Interoperability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633936 - Mar 2024 (146 comments)

It was discussed couple days ago as well

"WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107109 - 01-dec-2025 - 88 comments

No, lol, WhatsApp remains in full control of user IDs. Maybe if they make WA federated, but we both know this is not gonna happen.