PRotocols unification ? RE: New Yahoo messenger with Pidgin client

[pidgin at alexoren.com]

On 13-07-2016 12:43, David Balažic wrote:
> In light of this, does anyone know any group, organization, effort or anything toward unification of IM protocols?
> Having 5 (or even 10) different apps just to communicate with people is ridiculous.
> (multi-protocol clients like pidgin help, but the problem still remains)
>
> A quick google found just this old article from 2008:
>
> "Standardizing instant messaging protocols"
>  Instant messaging's growth hasn't been as robust as many expected
> http://www.networkworld.com/article/2273493/email-services/standardizing-instant-messaging-protocols.html

There is a standard, XMPP (aka Jabber).  Unfortunately, the companies consider going proprietary to be advantageous.  Even those that base their applications on XMPP add proprietary extensions to purposely be incompatible with everybody else.