WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…
WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…
Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?
Element uses the Matrix open standard which supports bridges. I don’t know if the WhatsApp bridge uses the web interface or API for the PC desktop app, but that one is working for quite some time already.
For people not wanting to configure it all from scratch there are already pre-build complete packages bundling up all your usual messengers in one location/app like Beeper.
Yeah, but they were talking about building out WhatsApp third party compatibility on top of it.
There already was Element One, which bridged to a bunch of things for a small subscription fee, although it had to break E2EE to do so. I’m just finding a lot of broken links now, though.
Element says lots of things.
Oh? What else have they said? I didn’t know there was a reputation for fibbing.
Element is the poster-child of the venture capital long forgotten darling, now struggling for its survival after failing as an investment and as a product so thoroughly. During its first decade, they had to pump hype with overblown promises to keep the funds coming, often dragging the ecosystem into unsustainable and unattainable quests (remember P2P?). Now that this is no longer on the menu, they want to give the pretence of being the “reasonable” alternative and focuses on leeching public grants while completely failing/being late to the party in the corporate space. Even though Matrix saw some non-federating/private deployments at some government agencies in the recent years, little of it has benefitted Element, which pissed them off enough into going with an open-core model (i.e. closed source “Synapse Pro” with a paid subscription for the resource-efficient server). I’ve been following them since the very start, and although “fibbing” might be too strong a word, deception is their MO.