franz VS telepathy-qt

I thought this was https://meetfranz.com/ until the word “Apache Kafka” and was puzzled.

Naming things and name collisions…

But for Windows or Linux PC, I'd use this one Franz to view multiple chat apps

Thats insane! I thought it was a free thing that just required an invite to access. Jeez! I have seen an alternative called Franz, not tried it yet though. By the looks of it does have a free alternative aswell as paid version.

There is also https://meetfranz.com/. But its neither selfhosted nor free. (well unless you only need 3 different services)

Or Franz

For anyone who doesn't know what Franz is, you can check out the link below. It is essentially an application that allows you to access (most of) your online messaging apps in the same place. Which is convenient when you want to, for example, check your facebook, discord and IG messages at the same time. https://meetfranz.com/

It's more like https://meetfranz.com/

Another FOSS universal chat solution that was probably better architected but unfortunately was never as popular as pidgin:

https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/

They used Telepathy with Empathy as the client.

That's where we're now. Those free services are all (relatively) new and they still need to get some hang, but they have some enough that some kind and smart people were interested enough to develop a desktop client. Yes, in the ideal world (or at least my ideal world) people would just remembered about KDE-Telepathy and restart their work. I had some hope a couple years ago but definitely one man just can't keep up with the huge amount of work it needs, not just in KDE-Telepathy but in upstream Telepathy. Hell, it's a miracle that things like Telegram-Qt still move, albeit very slow.