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Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meta wants to federate with the whole fediverse eventually. This is first up, then Threads. Remains to be seen if they’ll bother with a Lemmy instance but I wouldn’t be shocked.

So far though the response by the fediverse has been “nah”.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

It's... I guess the ghost of their XMPP abandonment.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

EEE at its finest, like they did to XMPP

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't it google?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago

Both Google and Facebook.