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Claudius

@aronkvh @mattburgess The conversation will work like this:

"Hey, I sent you that WhatsApp"
"yeah what was that about?"
"I used a new function in WhatsApp"
"but I'm not using WhatsApp, I'm using <insert different app here>"
"oh, that's inconvenient. Can you maybe just switch to WhatsApp instead?"

Interoperability barely works when all parties have common goals and good intentions. I do not assume meta to have good intentions.

6 February at 22:39 | Wall-to-wall | Open on darmstadt.social
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Dieu

@claudius @aronkvh @mattburgess fail to see how this should make people who even refused to use WhatsApp while it wasn't interoperable *at all* to switch to it. 3E doesn't work just because you hope or fear it will. I do not see any plausible path to success here.

7 February at 8:15 | Open on hespere.de
Claudius

@hllizi @aronkvh @mattburgess I have seen this pattern with XMPP on Facebook chat.

I have seen this with people asking other people to get on Gmail (because gmail -> gmail end up in spam less often (I wonder why!? /s))

Heck I've seen this with Funny SMS ASCII-images that only worked correctly on other Nokia phones.

I don't really care if you don't find it plausible.

7 February at 9:00 | Open on darmstadt.social
Dieu

@claudius @aronkvh @mattburgess and I don't care what you care about, but I didn't think that this was the issue.

7 February at 9:02 | Open on hespere.de
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