Hippo 🍉<p>The EU is mandating messaging apps be compatible with each other, but the current plan is looking less like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>federation</span></a> and more like "register your chat app with Meta, send them all your data, and link with their prescribed APIs that they may decide to change any day"</p><p>At the risk of preaching to the converted, here's <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.igniterealtime.org/@guusdk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>guusdk</span></a></span> advocating for *real* interoperability between messaging apps, using an existing, battle-tested, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IETF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IETF</span></a>-backed standard: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a>! :xmpp:</p><p><a href="https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/t/it-s-time-for-real-interoperability-let-s-make-it-happen/95342" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discourse.igniterealtime.org/t</span><span class="invisible">/it-s-time-for-real-interoperability-let-s-make-it-happen/95342</span></a></p>