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Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

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Our quest to make Beeper the best chat app on Earth continues. Recap the progress we’ve made, ICYMI.

I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now.

The convenience of having an application to house all of your chat networks is amazing.

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Well universal chat (like universal e-mail) is either going to be a common open protocol (does not seem very likely given Apple and all the other players) or is going to be something like this on the client side. Although its a lot of work, it does seem more possible. The only pity is it can't solve connecting to services that I don't use like Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp.
- The EU is forcing the big chat companies to open their gates. They have until April of next year to comply, so we might see a common protocol for chat pretty soon
  
  This one I hadn't heard about until now, do you have a link to some more information?
  
  Digital market act https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en
  Chat apps are only part of it. It will force iOS and android to offer competing app market too.
  
  Oh, I hadn't realized chat apps were covered by it, but that sounds promising! Thanks for the link 🙂
  
  Can you explain how this affects chat apps? What do they need to implement?
  
  They need to be interoperable. For example if you're on Signal but want to chat with your parents who are on FB Messenger, then you would be able to chat to them via Signal.
  You can envision each chat apps as different instances and these communicate to eachother with a common protocol, just like ActivityPub in Lemmy.
  
  That sounds like something that companies are going to do literally everything they can to avoid. I hope this makes them squirm.
  
  Isn't Apple restricting their part of that to EU citizens?
  
  That is really going to be interesting, yes! It is seriously needed despite what Apple will say. And if implemented correctly it can still be E2EE but with our own client apps.

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