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Most modern chat systems are entirely proprietary: proprietary clients, talking proprietary protocols to proprietary servers.

There's no need for this: there are free open standards for one-to-one and one-to-many comms for precisely this sort of system, and some venerable clients are still a lot more capable than you might remember.

As it is today, if you need to be on more than one chat system at once, the official way is to install their client app, meaning multiple clients - or at best, multiple tabs open in your web browsers.

Most of these "Clients" are JavaScript web apps anyway, running inside Electron - an embedded Chromium-based single-site browser.

There is a brute-force way round this: have one app that embeds lots of separate Electron instances in tabs.

Both use the "Freemium" model: there's a completely functional free client, plus subscriptions for extra features.

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