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>>basemi+(OP)
I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?

>>mberni+MFw
I enjoy the cat-and-mouse!

I've been writing the Teams plugin for Pidgin for the past few years and its great to be able to give users the kind of features or privacy options that you'd never get from official clients, while learning lots of fun ways (ab)using web tech to solve problems.

Like how in Teams, it does a "reverse webhook" to push presence notifications to a web client acting as a server over a websocket