General Discussion@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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General Discussion@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

And what was the state of Linux when proprietary instant messaging apps were popular?

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It was great because none of them secured their protocols.

Everyone on Linux just used Pidgin and you had all your contacts and chats on every service all in one client.

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