I'm glad that you have learned of the brief golden age of online communication. I had friends on 6 different services and used Trillian, Pidgin, etc to talk to

I'm glad that you have learned of the brief golden age of online communication. I had friends on 6 different services and used Trillian, Pidgin, etc to talk to them all. Somehow we have to escape these walled gardens and get back to that borderless world. At work (operations for a space mission), we use an XMPP-based chat system for tactical communications along with several other systems, but Slack was introduced and more and more communcations are being handled over Slack. I'm advocating for replacing several systems with Jitsi, which is XMPP-based, because it allows us better control and customizability. It's an uphill battle.