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ryandrake | karma 48548 | avg karma 4.45 · 2016-02-16 04:08:56+00:00

The most ridiculous thing about all these chat apps is not that they all essentially do the same simple thing as each other (send text), but that they each managed to do it in a way that was incompatible with every other chat app. It's almost as if there was some omniscient God of Incompatibility out there pulling the strings.

firasd | karma 3901 | avg karma 6.15 · 2016-02-16 04:13:57+00:00

I think it's just the business model... whether ICQ in the 90s or Facebook Messenger today, there is no incentive for interoperability (especially if you're one of the bigger networks.)

pjbrunet | karma 271 | avg karma 0.46 · 2016-02-16 04:59:30+00:00

I don't disagree, but here are some links

    https://www.trillian.im/ 
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber

DanBC | karma 56529 | avg karma 2.13 · 2016-02-16 09:11:51+00:00

Those links would have been clickable if you hadn't put four spaces in front of them.

digi_owl | karma 9592 | avg karma 1.33 · 2016-02-16 17:13:17+00:00

Jabber yes, Trillian no.

Trillian is basically the same as Pidgin, one client implementing multiple incompatible protocols.

Jabber is the originator of XMPP.

Insanely both Google and Facebook used XMPP for a while, but then turned off federation (allowing someone on Facebook to message someone on Google).

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