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Does anyone know where this is at? I thought WhatsApp were being forced by the EU in 2024 to introduce this under the Digital Markets App? I'm googling, but am finding very little info.

It would be great if we could use Signal to communicate with WhatsApp groups. The sooner I can delete WhatsApp the better.

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[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully never. Just stop using whatsapp. Be the change.

When facebook bought whatsapp, I walked through the list of chats I had on whatsapp and asked them what other apps they already used. Most people already used something other than a facebook owned thing or were willing to start.

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Signal had SMS support and dropped it. I imagine any argument for Whatsapp interoperability would face a similar fate.

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago
[–] NoisyFlake@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Now that iPhones have RCS messaging, is something like this still desired? Can't everyone just use RCS instead (assuming that everyone has a somewhat modern phone/OS that supports RCS). Or am I not seeing something here?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The EU would like it, given that very few people here use SMS/RCS still.

[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting point. Does that mean iPhones and Android can now have a shared group over imessage/whatever it's called in Android? Are those messages encrypted?

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