@maija >thtey dont have even a fraction of the featureset
Offering everything you need is the featureset they offer.

>irc is too limited and complicated for your average person
Gatekeeping proprietary NPCs out of holy chats is a feature.

>xmpp doesn't have good clients outside of android
It's called pidgin.

>yes because they can justt give you fake misleading code
I can quite easily determine by inspecting the sources and seeing if they compile to a similar binary, if I have been given the real source code, or have been given incomplete, non-corresponding source code.