You need to be careful with this. I used something similar to this because I don't like running WeChat on my phone and the account was almost instantly banned and I lost my only communication channel with my family in mainland.
This is the official client running in Wine.
You statement doesn't sound ridiculous, just uninformed and lacking awareness of how people communicate in China.
Wonder why.
No different with Messenger in the US. Fools.
12/15 hour time difference also make it difficult to find a good time to make phone calls