This. I grokked this when I tried to contribute to Unigram (an alternative Telegram client) in 2021. Back in school and even university circa 2010, what I expec

This. I grokked this when I tried to contribute to Unigram (an alternative Telegram client) in 2021. Back in school and even university circa 2010, what I expected from chat apps is passing around text messages salted with a few UI features like parsing and displaying emoji, highlighting links and maybe sending files. These days there are hundreds of types of messages alone, plus you also have all kinds of metadata exchange, social graph stuff, group management etc. When writing this comment, I feel like the whole IM industry would win from following Unix philosophy a bit more. But it is never going to happen because companies want to lock users in.