> The correct response to this behavior is to switch to Telegram or Whatsapp or whatever and just be free of vendor lock in for something as basic as messaging.
My hope is that EU regulations will return us to truly lockin-free state of messaging we had in the 00s with modern analogues of Pidgin and Adium and people can use whatever messaging app they like. To me that’s a far better outcome than switching to e.g. WhatsApp, which is just as bad about lock-in even if that’s hidden by its ubiquity and cross-platform nature.
My hope is that EU regulations will return us to truly lockin-free state of messaging we had in the 00s with modern analogues of Pidgin and Adium and people can use whatever messaging app they like. To me that’s a far better outcome than switching to e.g. WhatsApp, which is just as bad about lock-in even if that’s hidden by its ubiquity and cross-platform nature.