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Johannes Ernst

Another impact of the EU’s Digital Acts, I’m sure: Automattic is getting into messaging.

theverge.com/2023/10/24/239286

24 Oct 2023 at 19:10 | Open on social.coop
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Anders Thoresson

@J12t What is the connection to the new EU regulation?

24 Oct 2023 at 19:39 | Open on thoresson.social
Johannes Ernst

@anders messaging interop. It effectively reduces network effects around the various closed messengers and enables new market entrants — like Automattic — to be successful.

24 Oct 2023 at 19:41 | Open on social.coop
Austin Huang ❤

@J12t Thought "didn't Automattic fund Matrix at first?" (See matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/wel .) I guess they got short attention spans... though they do have a valid point on Matrix, whose management (New Vector) kinda just banks on the DMA and wants to coerce everyone into using it. But at least Matrix's goal is real interoperability (regardless of what clients users are using), this Texts thing isn't (plus, in terms of multi-platform clients, we already had Pidgin & Trillium long before)...

@J12t Thought "didn't Automattic fund Matrix at first?" (See matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/wel .) I guess they got short attention spans... though they do have a valid point on Matrix, whose management (New Vector) kinda just banks on the DMA and wants to coerce everyone into using it. But at least Matrix's goal is real interoperability (regardless of what clients users are using), this Texts thing isn't (plus, in terms of multi-platform clients, we already had Pidgin...

25 Oct 2023 at 12:00 | Open on mstdn.ca
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