They absolutely will. The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between social messaging services. ActivityPub is an easy way to comply because they are “technically” interoperable but can still choose to only federate with instances that abide by their rules.
I don’t know if that loophole may work. But if it does, it may work only for a time until a consumer association escalates that to the European court of justice.
Did you know that Reddit’s newest chat function technically uses Matrix? Boom, the capacity for interoperability should the EU come down on them. That’s just one example of the background ways companies are preparing for this.
To learn more, the EU has put together a helpful site at this link.
They absolutely will. The EU’s Digital Markets Act requires interoperability between social messaging services. ActivityPub is an easy way to comply because they are “technically” interoperable but can still choose to only federate with instances that abide by their rules.
Did thye define how to achive interoperability? They can make a ActivityPub clone to call it interoperable but no one else use it.
I don’t know if that loophole may work. But if it does, it may work only for a time until a consumer association escalates that to the European court of justice.
How do any social media companies operate if that’s the law? Most don’t federate.
X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc don’t follow this law.
Did you know that Reddit’s newest chat function technically uses Matrix? Boom, the capacity for interoperability should the EU come down on them. That’s just one example of the background ways companies are preparing for this.
To learn more, the EU has put together a helpful site at this link.