EU's New Digital Proposal Is Good for Users, Not for Profits (opens in new tab)

i am hopeful i can finally stay on matrix while get people who cannot be bothered to leave whatsapp to talk to me.

would it be like how we currently send emails? like i don't know if exampl34@gmail.com exists but i still send it. if it does exist, it is delivered otherwise i am told no result.

any idea when we can start to see fruits of this interoperability?

Sounds good, though previous EU initiatives have been blunted by lobbying and non-compliance. Possibly China's recent moves in similar directions will make it more obvious when the EU backslides. Maybe one day soon the US will join them and a new dawn of technological capitalism based on multiple competing services trying to meet user needs rather than achieve network lock-in will arise.

It's kind of interesting to imagine what could have been if so much human effort hadn't been poured into trapping people into walled gardens.