@phocks And if those other services wanted that, they could have made the web client they run on their server have those features.
But instead they pretend like it was necessary to ignore the long term evolving collective development of a W3C project
For "big world" which, I believe is their double-speak term for walled garden, shorter walls but still walled in
Best way I think I can explain this, its like if Google came up with their own email protocol. Then Bridges were required b/c of it