Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by fimdomeio on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:07AM (#29000567)

Back in the day and for a little while platforms companies thought to at least have a common language (xmpp). Then they thought it would be a better idea if we all had 10 different apps on our phones for text messages.

There's no reason for standardization and interoperability not to be forced on these companies.

When you sent a physical letter you have to follow some standards on the envelope addresses, when you make a phone call to the other side of the world people can still hear your voice, same for sms, same for email, but apparently sending a string of text via internet in a standard protocol is an unsolvable problem.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by mehdix on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:35AM (#29000950)

Companies must be forced to implement a subset of their features as part of some interoperability standard. The rest they can keep for their competitive advantage. I can't recall any industry who ever volunteered for this. Car makers didn't, telecoms didn't, software makers won't. No one did and they all exploited their users/customers to the fullest until they were forced to do so.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by peoplefromibiza on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:47PM (#29004556)

think about this: WA protocol was simply XMPP with shorter labels (one character when possible)

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