> In 2025, Meta will roll out group functionality for third-party chats, and, in 2027, it’ll launch voice and video calling in accordance with the DMA.
Well, that's a timeline!
Ideally this would help boost popularity & adoption, that whomever can make the best ability to integrate will see great rewards.
It looks like the long time line is to give them time to plan a terrible user experience for third-party messages. They don't want to risk it becoming something useful
- Don't give access to other third party apps (don't act as a proxy)
- Manage spam
- Don't overload or reverse engineer [their] systems with the keys you're given
- Take care of adapting to API changes and doing upgrades in a timely manner
- Treat messages from Meta with a reciprocal amount of diligence
Of course they might have nefarious language in there, but I would think they'd think twice before doing that for a product meant to appease regulators.
I wouldn't trust them not trying something; the full NDA should also be made available to the EC to ensure they aren't secretly pulling an Apple, or worse.
HN comments today are either cynical or commending. Internet comments are only commending. Very little discussion as of yet what benefits this would give to facebook, the other apps, and the users.
Unless they are absolutely splitting up the platform into a public service, I think this is a stunt to domesticate other platforms into a facebook empire.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 36.7 ms ] threadWell, that's a timeline!
Ideally this would help boost popularity & adoption, that whomever can make the best ability to integrate will see great rewards.
What sort of agreement, an NDA type of agreement? Is this ruling out open source software? I wonder what the EU thinks about this.
- Don't give access to other third party apps (don't act as a proxy)
- Manage spam
- Don't overload or reverse engineer [their] systems with the keys you're given
- Take care of adapting to API changes and doing upgrades in a timely manner
- Treat messages from Meta with a reciprocal amount of diligence
Of course they might have nefarious language in there, but I would think they'd think twice before doing that for a product meant to appease regulators.
Unless they are absolutely splitting up the platform into a public service, I think this is a stunt to domesticate other platforms into a facebook empire.