[hammyhavoc]

Of course it breaches plenty of ToS, they're third-party bridges for Matrix that are developed by people within the community. Do you really think that big corps are going to be happy about people not seeing ads? Of course not, ergo there are ToS clauses there to discourage people from doing so.

For non-programmers, there are cheap turn-key SaaS. Look at Beeper for example: https://www.beeper.com/

You also don't need to start the chat in another app, that's complete and utter bollocks, regardless of whether you use SaaS like Beeper, or your own home server.

I'll check back in with you in 5 years and we can laugh at each other: @hammy:matrix.splitanatom.com :- )