#instantmessages — Public Fediverse posts

Found in my Calishat Snaps: Buddy Icon Archive. From the site’s short history of AIM buddy icons: “The canvas was so small that every decision became emphatic. Surviving client documentation describes images between 48×48 and 50×50 pixels. A face needed a close crop; text needed blunt contrast; an idea often had to survive in a single glance. Animated GIFs turned that square into a tiny […]

So two big questions:

1. If clients are now integrating #RSS with the #SocialWeb, when are they going to start integrating #email and #InstantMessages too?
2. At what point do these clients stop being clients and start being #webfeed browsers?