To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol
To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol
Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable with third-party messaging
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Meta says that it will only allow third-party developers to use another protocol besides Signal, “if they are able to demonstrate it offers the same security guarantees as Signal.”
If matrix finally finishes implementing MLS, maybe they could convince meta to use it.
Last time they touched an open chat protocol, they hung it out to dry. That was XMPP. That's why more than half of the fediverse is reluctant or outright hostile to federate with anything meta.
maybe they could convince meta to use it
I think he/she meant convincing Meta to use MLS, not Matrix.
Now that I read it again, you may be right.
XMPP is used in many, many places. It's just not usually explicitly known that the backend is using that protocol
You are underplaying the damage Google and FB did to XMPP. It wasn't supposed to be relegated to an obscure backend protocol. The involvement of those companies ensured that it didn't become a popular user-facing protocol.
What is the advantage of this over olm/megolm?
Why MLS?
In most cases, MLS has better performance in large groups than Olm/Megolm.