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		franga2000 on Nov 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swinging back to open standards Bridges always degrade the user experience. Chats come from the bridge user, so now you need to look for some strangely formatted header to see who sent the message, there are no avatars, formatting that might be crucial to the meaning of the message gets stripped on unsupported platforms, same for certain attachments...

lrvick on Nov 18, 2022 [–]

Services with actual APIs, like Slack, work pretty seamlessly.

Not all bridges can do this though, its true. Still almost universally a better UX than having 10 messaging apps.

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