So you abandon open protocols, and then try to be yet another whatsapp &#x2F; snapchat &#x2F; hangouts &#x2F; skype &#x2F; whatever the hell.<p>Didn&#x27;t we do this in the 90s? We had AIM, Yahoo, and MSM. We learned that is stupid as hell, and we should just use the same protocol. So then they all supported XMPP.<p>And a decade later, the cycle repeats. Everyone walls up, tries to treat chat as this money pot, and I hope we can get back to open standards sooner rather than later. I&#x27;m sick and tired of not being able to talk to people easily and just resorting to email since thats the only common open protocol left people actually use.