BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

Post by bornfreddy » Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

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Signal allows you to do local chat export for backup, as opposed to WhatsApp (which only allows backup to Google account on android). That's actually my biggest complaint against WhatsApp and Viber: why don't you allow local backup, or backup to something I control?

Correction, in case you're interested: Whatsapp does (and has always done) allow local file backups. I know because they are just there on the storage: Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Backups/ I also know because for many years I was VERY cloud-averse so for several iterations of smartphone purchases I did migrate my chat backups between phones (plain copy-paste of files with a computer) without issues.

Post by zer0zzz » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 7:14 AM UTC

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Last I heard iMessage was not deemed an eu “gatekeeper” so no

I don’t know anyone in Europe who uses iMessage, everyone is on WhatsApp though.

Post by dmitrygr » Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

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Hopefully - never ever ever ever ever. I do not want spam. This is why iMessage is much better than SMS - there is an implicit cost to send. This is why there is 100x (my experience) iMessage spam than SMS spam. Easy to send messages -> spam

All phone and internet services in the EU are connected to your personal identity document, similar to China. If you send spam, the police come to your house.

Post by ExpertAdvisor01 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 4:30 AM UTC

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Hope the new Whatsapp interface won't be abused for spam . As Whatsapp already has spam issues . Will it run through meta's anti-spam filtering ?

> As Whatsapp already has spam issues Want to elaborate a little? I think I got only one spammy WhatsApp message in the last who knows how many years it was made available (I remember the time when I had to pay to use it on the iPhone). I get more SMS spam nowadays.