this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2021
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you don't have multiple browsers running for what is essentially all of the webpages of the services you're using, but you have a combined messaging frontend where everything works and looks the same. For example, I really dislike how every messaging app has their own way of doing things and Matrix currently enables me to combine several into one. I might shell out the $10 a month if they manage to integrate Teams well, as it'd really make my day easier. Ferdi has its benefits, but also lots of quirks which are not its own fault, but really that the app makers can't federate and do https://xkcd.com/927 for walled-garden reasons instead.
Ideally you'd be able to use both their service and their matrix bridges as hosted options, not directly tied to their client. Let's see what the future brings, this seems to be a "fresh" idea (which, back in the days, Trillian did first) for the Matrix ecosystem.