This was a solved problem 15 years ago with multi-protocol clients like LICQ, Gaim/Pidgin and Trillian. Maybe it's harder these days to keep up with the enginee

This was a solved problem 15 years ago with multi-protocol clients like LICQ, Gaim/Pidgin and Trillian. Maybe it's harder these days to keep up with the engineers at Facebook, Google and Microsoft but surely simple texting can't be that hard. I note that the Slashdot submission [1] of this link suggests we need a new, universal protocol, to which the only answer is another XKCD comic [2]. [1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/13/2054207/ask-slashdot-how-would-you-solve-the-instant-messaging-problem https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/13/2054207/ask-slashdot... [2] https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/