JulianBecause at least Wire and WhatsApp have no economic incentive to do so and Signal might not be willing to risk their reputation as a privacy friendly service when they cooperate with meta-data grabbing WhatsApp.
Imo, the way to break the old silos will come from a group of like-minded services that agree on federation from the very beginning and built their business model around this idea.
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