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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by thaumasiotes on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:34PM (#25877144)
> It's really annoying because chat providers have pretty much stopped providing third party APIs

They never provided third party APIs. The work of developing a unified messaging client was in getting around the ways in which they tried to stop you from interfacing with their system, and responding quickly when their countermeasures updated.

We haven't seen a change in the behavior of chat providers; we've seen developers give up on trying.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by alisonkisk on Friday January 22, 2021 @09:52PM (#25879110)
Not true. Many protocols were open (even one of the AOL protocols), and also security basically didn't exist back then, almost everything was based on trust and obscurity.
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