What are the effects of the DMA on SFOS?

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#1

For instance will the venerable Mitakulu be able to rise from the ashes?

Any other potentially positive impacts of this legislation that you see?

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#2

What was “Mitakulu”?
mitä kuuluu - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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#3

It was a 3rd party application for WhatsApp (“What’s up?” is “Mitä kuuluu?” in Finnish).

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#4

Oh, I was afraid that that was the answer.

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#5

Has something changed in WhatsApp 3rd party client licensing? I believe whatsapp was banning numbers that were using 3rd party clients, that was one of the reasons that Mitakulu died.

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#6

yes there is an EU legislation that requires changes from IM platforms, would it be easier for telegram to be able to read WA messages instead?

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#7

WhatsUp uses Signal protocol, and IIRC they recently announced plans for interoperability with the Signal app.

#8

Do you have a source for that interoperability claim?

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#9

Whatsapp was as far as I recall another implementation of xmpp when it began and switched to signal to do EEE, then they blocked all non-whatsapp clients and may or may not have diverged from whatever base protocol they were using.

Either way the EU DMA is rocking the boat:

#10

There is a REST API for Whatsapp.