• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There’s one slight issue with Signal and it’s that none of my contacts is using it and I’m not going to be the guy telling them to install it just so that they can talk to me.

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      1 year ago

      In the EU by next year app communication protocols need to be compatible by law, it is mainly said that it would mean that whatsapp could communicate with telegram but I suppose it also should work with signal.

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Should work pretty well even, since they use the same encryption protocol.

        Won’t happen though. Signal is very much against interoperability, and they’re not big enough to be considered a gatekeeper that will be forced by law.

        Fun fact I learned not long ago:
        Even iMessage technically wouldn’t count as a gatekeeper, since it is in fact below the usercount threshold the EU defined.

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        1 year ago

        Signal is not required to be interoperable and the CEO also stated that they won’t.

    • God_Is_Love@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Not gonna lie I did this with all of my friends and family and most of them switched 🤣 But I completely get not wanting to go there!

    • Albert@lemmy.sysctl.io
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      1 year ago

      You should. If they’ll literally stop talking to you over an app choice how good of friends are they?

      • Fisch@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Aren’t you doing the same thing to them in this case?