@sean @pluralistic well, we used to have some when IRC/MSN were kings. Adium, Pidgin, Trillian and so on...
But closed platforms took over by offering slick interfaces, emojis and stickers.
For me, it began with Facebook Messenger replacing MSN, Slack replacing IRC and/or MSN, and so on.
We never learn, we are continually repeating the same cycle, the same mistakes
