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Re:Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger... by 56friends on Monday January 23, 2023 @07:48PM (#34497460)
#2 is interesting. I am very curious what the ultimate plan for having 2 messaging apps is (at least in Zuck’s head). My bet is that his fantasy is to eventually merge them into a single service: Meta Messenger.
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Re:Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger... by baby on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:12PM (#34497691)
Yeah I believe the plan for interop has been public for years now
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Re:Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger... by i67vw3 on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:40PM (#34498877)
FB messenger is largely used in US. In non-US countries everyone uses Whatsapp.

If they drop whatsapp to combine both of them, it will have quite serious effects and completely ruin the whole 'thing'.

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Re:Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger... by baby on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:57PM (#34499484)
interop is not about dropping one over the other, it's about being able to talk to messenger user through whatsapp
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Re:Expanding Features for End-to-End Encryption on Messenger... by 56friends on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:05AM (#34504438)
They could do this very gradually. First rename WhatsApp to Meta Messenger. Keep everything else the same. Then with interop being implemented slowly merge FB messenger into Meta Messenger.
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