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BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

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Post by lxgr »

shevy-java wrote: post #169

That name isn't that great ... WhatsApp is not a great name either, but catchy and somewhat simple. BirdyPo.. I mean BirdyChat sounds like when doves cry. But not as catchy. Also, I am all in favour of Europeans becoming less dependent on the USA (yet-another-ICE-killing incident today, with video footage contradicting the claims made by the current government - again), but there is kind of ... a weak decision-making…

> Who owns and controls all these media?

Never attribute to a cabal what can be adequately described by Gell-Mann-Amnesia.

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Post by joe_mamba »

Grimblewald wrote: post #193
joe_mamba wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The regional limit makes it pretty much useless. Sounds like an easy fix. Europe just has to convince the rest of the world to ditch the 15 year old popular US apps ingrained in pop culture and with network effects, and have them switch to their own EU made apps, this way we can all communicate together. :hugs: Until then, let's keep chatting on $US_APP so we can debate on how we're gonna achieve that switch.

Shouldnt be hard to convince folks. Everyone i know hates facebook / meta and is just waiting for an agreed upon alternative.

You realize that at the end of your sentence you've contradicted everything you've said from the start until that point, right?

Maybe it was tongue in cheek and I missed it.

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Post by thevillagechief »

hei-lima wrote: post #197
prmoustache wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> any WhatsApp user in the region The regional limit makes it pretty much useless. The only reason I keep a whatsapp account is to stay in touch with my family in law and a few relatives who live in another continent.

In countries where SMS isn't as widespread as it is in the US, the use of WhatsApp is much more common. I live in one of those countries, and I don't think I've ever had to use it to communicate with someone on another continent. I think most of its use is simply local, for your community or friend group. The downside for me is basically the lack of appeal for a non-tech user (like my parents) to voluntarily want to…

Whatsapp is more popular in the US than you'd think. Probably due to a large immigrant population. I'm in several groups that use the channels feature to organize things like soccer, game nights etc. Most people with family abroad use Whatsapp, and that's a huge portion of the US.

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Post by GranPC »

charcircuit wrote: post #204
amelius wrote: post #199

When can I send messages from a PC running Python?

WhatsApp has an official API you can use already. https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-python/

That is not official, unmaintained since November 2024, and only applicable for the business API. It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform.

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

jordemort wrote: post #170

I'm pretty resentful that people in the US are stuck using worse/less featureful versions of products from US companies, while the government in Europe can get these kinds of concessions for their people. If a company is legally obligated to offer a feature to people in other parts of the world, they should be forced to offer it at back home in the US as well, since we can't be bothered otherwise to pass any of these…

That’s because your government aligns itself with businesses, not consumers.

> If a company is legally obligated to offer a feature to people in other parts of the world, they should be forced to offer it at back home in the US as well

This is a pretty typical self -entitled attitude that Americans have. You chose your government, not the rest of the world.

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Post by amelius »

charcircuit wrote: post #204
amelius wrote: post #199

When can I send messages from a PC running Python?

WhatsApp has an official API you can use already. https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-python/

Looks like it is an API for the WhatsApp Business Platform.

(So not free, not for consumers)

https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messa...

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Post by cromka »

wswin wrote: post #192
jordemort wrote: post #170

I'm pretty resentful that people in the US are stuck using worse/less featureful versions of products from US companies, while the government in Europe can get these kinds of concessions for their people. If a company is legally obligated to offer a feature to people in other parts of the world, they should be forced to offer it at back home in the US as well, since we can't be bothered otherwise to pass any of these…

Let's not pretend they would do this if the tech monopolies were european.

Let's not pretend you ever bothered to check if that's actually true
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