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all pretty sound, aside from 'interoperability on instant messenger', which would be incompatible with privacy / security obligations from the providers.

Wonder how hard US govt will bat for the US tech, leverage is there vs the EU post Putin invasion of Ukraine

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BS, XMPP federation has been around for decades now. Google messenger used to speak it before the removed it , maybe Facebook as well.

Hopefully this will be the re-birth of the XMPP standard. WhatsApp is built on it, has a huge market share and, when I read this correctly, will start federating in the near future.

yup. with google messenger it was used almost exclusively to spam google messenger users, and that's what'll happen with this as well.

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