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Re:Et Tu, Signal? by pmlnr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:52AM (#26725788)
That was never a thing: Pidgin & the rest had to write their own implementation for many of those protocols, starting with AIM.

There was a tiny period, somewhere in 2006, when many services were XMPP, maybe even federated, but due to the lack of good clients - compared to skype -, it never manifested as good as it should have.

There are now many nice XMPP clients, but the big players now all moved into proprietary territory.

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Re:Et Tu, Signal? by ebrenes on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:38PM (#26745111)
I also remember a period in time when I could use Trillian to connect to ICQ, MSM, AIM and have it all in one convenient chat client without having to fire up all the individual ones. Granted it sometimes broke when the protocols updated, but for a moment it was pretty cool.
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Re:Et Tu, Signal? by MereInterest on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:28PM (#26728918)
Good point, I am misremembering.
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