Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.
blog.beeper.com
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.
The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.
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This one I hadn't heard about until now, do you have a link to some more information?
Digital market act https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Chat apps are only part of it. It will force iOS and android to offer competing app market too.
Can you explain how this affects chat apps? What do they need to implement?
They need to be interoperable. For example if you're on Signal but want to chat with your parents who are on FB Messenger, then you would be able to chat to them via Signal.
You can envision each chat apps as different instances and these communicate to eachother with a common protocol, just like ActivityPub in Lemmy.
That sounds like something that companies are going to do literally everything they can to avoid. I hope this makes them squirm.
Oh, I hadn't realized chat apps were covered by it, but that sounds promising! Thanks for the link 🙂
Isn't Apple restricting their part of that to EU citizens?