With all the news, I couldn’t find the information. All I know is from a Lemmy user who said Signal stated they won’t connect with Whatsapp. I really want to swap off a Meta-owned app, but cannot lose access to the people who use Whatsapp.

If anyone knows, I’ll appreciate you sharing the knowledge.

I’ll also appreciate the crowd of “if someone won’t download an app just to speak to you, they’re not worth being contacted” not commenting their oh so useful wisdom. ;)

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Matrix has already long been able to connect to whatsapp. I‘m not sure if you‘re talking about the matrix protocol (which would be news to me) but there are several working bridges for whatsapp at this point.

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The first official implementation of directly connecting WhatsApp to another chat system - using APIs built specifically for purpose instead of third-party bridges - was indeed done against the Matrix protocol, as part of a collaboration in testing ways to satisfy the interoperability requirements of the EU Digital Services Act.
So not a case of a third-party bridge trying to act as a WhatsApp client enough to funnel communication, but instead using an official WhatsApp endpoint developed - by them - explicitly for interoperation with another chat system.

I think the latest update on the topic is the FOSDEM talk that Matthew held this February.

Edit: It’s worth noting that the goal here is to even support direct E2EE communication between users of WhatsApp and Matrix, something that’s not likely to happen with the first consumer-available release.

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Thanks for elaborating. TIL!

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