Patrick Breyer<p>🇬🇧Consumer-hostile <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Whatsapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Whatsapp</span></a> messenger will soon be interoperable - we <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Pirates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pirates</span></a> ensured this via the <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a>. In the coming months, we will be able to switch to better and open messenger services such as Matrix and continue to communicate with our consenting Whatsapp contacts securely and end-to-end encrypted across platforms using the Signal protocol. Wired reports: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/whatsapp-inter</span><span class="invisible">operability-messaging/</span></a></p><p>Facebook Messenger will also become interoperable, possibly iMessage too. <br>Anonymous use of the participating alternative messenger services remains possible, and Whatsapp only receives data on messages sent across platforms. </p><p>Even if Threema and Signal want to stay on the sidelines at first, I am confident that more and more messenger services will join in over time, because interoperability is the future and brings real competition and real freedom of choice!</p>