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		CrankyBear on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client I used to use Pidgin all the time. But, as the years went by, it supported fewer and fewer of the IM services and protocols I used so I finally bid it adieu.

black_puppydog on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

Actually more and more IM services shut down public APIs as the web transitioned into extracting value from user lock-in and analytics.

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