Hello,
There is a lot of talk in Europe at this moment, revolving around the fact most chat applications like Messenger, Whatsapp etc. are now, by law, becoming interoperable -which means also interoperable with smaller guys like Signal and Jami.
I for one am obliged to currently maintain e. g. a Whatsapp account just because some associations and circles I belong to are already on it -a classical situation.
I feel like the coming into force of the European DMCA law against anticompetitive features is indeed triggering something, be it just the opening of external interface APIs.
My question, my dream indeed, is the following : is there any activity in the Jami development that heads to connecting to these APIs?
Ideally, this would allow me to just close my Whatsapp account and the likes, simply announcing people over there that from now on my new address for them on W. will become HerveJami@whateverwhatsappsyntax…
This I think would be an extraordinary move, positive for both end-users and Jami the company, specially if we are the first ones to announce a working compatibility…
TBH I don’t want that Jami users can communicate with WhatsApp users and the other direction. WhatsApp for example generates and collects a lot of metadata:
And Signal won’t make it possible that you can use other messengers to send messages:
I wish exactly the same as Herve5. I think it’s great that there is an app like Jami, but unfortunately I’m the only one in my area who uses it. My contacts use WhatsApp and don’t want to switch away from it because others also use WhatsApp. And those others use WhatsApp, because their contacts are also using WhatsApp, and so on. If there are no plans for Jami to communicate with other chat apps in the future, I will unfortunately have to close my Jami account and say goodbye. Because I can’t keep talking to myself no matter how great this app is.
Thank you @JamiUser ! I’m exactly in your situation.
Short of discussing Jami features with people here, Jami is of exactly no use for me.
Professional colleagues are on Whatsapp, most of my family too, I just managed to impose Signal to few relatives long ago (they really accepted grudgingly). I obviously have just no way to impose Jami to any of them.
I believe the DMCA can impose silly-but-mainstream apps to connect to Jami, while the use of this capacity will still allow us to refuse any external contact, or allow only some of them, possibly for incoming messages only (preventing external leaks).
To me it’s a vital feature for Jami, which otherwise is bound to remain something totally confidential.
In Europe at this moment we see the coming up of many racist governments, so it’s also now or never.
Now please, @ECaptainRaj, @James, don’t go telling me to just wait for some fascist government to spy on competing apps to boost Jami. Because it’s not about competing apps nor even a competition : it’s about our very neigbors and relatives.
I strongly appreciate the links you posted -the time you spent for me-, which I didn’t find, although I trust Law is Law and the European DMCA will be obeyed anyway… by others starting first…
Hoping I didn’t hurt anyone here…
I count myself fortunate that my family does use Jami, and that I have also persuaded several friends to do so. I also believe I’m fortunate in that I have never interacted with any form of “social” media. I just haven’t felt the need.
It is my opinion that users and businesses will move away from those “social media” platforms over the next 5 to 8 years as they discover just how much data they’re unknowingly giving away.
On top of this, Jami just goes on quietly getting better and better.
Vivre Jami!
P.S. I’m happy to interact with anyone over Jami who, would like to! Just let me know - @JamiUser@Herve5@ECaptainRaj
