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DMA should open up the ecosystem and stop the monopoly of WhatsApp!
Let’s make WhatsApp and messaging in general a service like email, where you can message/email between messaging/email clients (like I can email from Proton to a Gmail user). Why is it impossible to message from my preferred app to another app user. This is technically very easy, and safe. It just that it would ruin WhatsApp’s empire because it brakes the lock-in.
This would mean the whole Meta universe falls apart, which would be awesome as they do not give a crap about anyone’s privacy or rights. they don’t comply by the law and don’t pay taxes.
Let’s break it open!
I think if you were using a very secure messenger, and talking to someone using a very insecure messenger, that could be a problem.
This is the typical response.
Do you have the same concerns when using email clients or when using SMS? ;-) Probably not.
Also, technically this problem is very easily solved by making a note in the app if you are going to send something, or receive something, from a non secure app. Like with email.
However tech platforms do not want to accommodate this because it breaks their monopoly. They rather push the narrative they need to complete lock in of the user to secure comms. It is NOT about security for them, they even sell all your data via the back door 😂, it is all about keeping their monopoly and monetising the shit out of that position.
No email or text is especially secure, so using this form of communication with someone on a different provider doesn't expose a person to any unexpected risk. But messaging programs vary wildly in what they expose and how they handle data. Anyone using such a network would have only as much privacy as that provided by the least private service, which is currently nothing. That's the opposite of what I would want out of a communication software, personally.
XMPP or Matrix.