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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 9 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 9 months ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

EEE at its finest, like they did to XMPP

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't it google?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 months ago

Both Google and Facebook.