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Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp by godelski on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:34AM (#45989957) 

  > Even better if it’s something I can self host or join into one from many servers (remember IRC? Good times).
What's stopping you? Even threads can connect to BlueSky
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Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp by lxgr on Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:10AM (#45991415)
> Even threads can connect to BlueSky

I thought Threads only interoperates with Mastodon/the fediverse in some limited capacity. Did I miss some Bluesky integration announcement?

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Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp by godelski on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:37PM (#45996716)
You just need a bridge, as with connecting any decentralized platforms

https://fed.brid.gy/

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Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp by lxgr on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:38AM (#46006055)
That's opt-in, mangles usernames, and on top of that quite a few people on Mastodon seemed allergic to the very idea of bridging/federation the last time I looked into it.
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Re:Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp by godelski on Friday November 21, 2025 @03:09PM (#46008394) 

  > That's opt-in
So? It's just an example. I'm sure you could do it in a cleaner way. They use different protocols. If you can run your own server and connect with open source tools, it's decentralized. Though of course that doesn't mean a decentralized protocol isn't highly centralized. See email
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