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> A universal chat application would be amazing

You mean like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and dozens of different chat apps available for both Android and iOS?

Beeper is an app that unifies all the messaging protocols you mentioned (and others) into a single app. They are not introducing another protocol.

Universal in this context is referring to the ability to use a single app across protocols rather than the ability to use a single app across platforms.

I miss the days of jabber being able to senselessly talk to aim, msn, yahoo, icq, etc. All chat contacts in one account.

Jabber transports, they were great.

Ok, I get it.

It's what EU mandated and from March '24 all major chat apps have to be able to communicate with each other.

Relavent xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

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