Does anyone know where this is at? I thought WhatsApp were being forced by the EU in 2024 to introduce this under the Digital Markets App? I’m googling, but am finding very little info.
It would be great if we could use Signal to communicate with WhatsApp groups. The sooner I can delete WhatsApp the better.
Matrix being federated and interoperable from day 1 was pushing for this and there was a blog post on this:
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/
So, Matrix (federated) and XMPP (federated) would also have “metadata leaks”. I imagine there would be metadata exchanged between federated servers and in addition the E2EE of XMPP and Matrix is not so good/modern as Signal’s. When Signal-Whatsapp interoperability is mentioned, all people is worried about metadata leaks but it seems that concern dissapears when federation of Matrix or XMPP is mentioned.
Apart from that and one very personal opinion, I always connected Matrix to IRC, I mean, it is used more for the groups functionality than for the person-to-person functionality. And IRC was never considered an Instant Messaging alternative. But this is a very personal feel.
So it looks like the problems are on the WhatsApp side. The EU should force them to get the finger out and come up with a proper solution.