[pkulak]

The bridges are already free and open source and I don't see my friends and family racing to get them running on their laptops. Pidgin is great, but something needs to be running on a server or you don't get notifications. And without notifications, what's the point of a messaging app?

[rw_grim]

I wrote more on this topic here https://dev.to/grim/why-is-there-no-mobile-version-of-pidgin...