Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoXMPP was sabotaged by google (and meta) but is still alive and well.
Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoXMPP was sabotaged by google (and meta) but is still alive and well.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It was intended as an ICQ replacement, and its advocates even managed to sell it as that for many normies. It became supported, with federation or not, by many email service providers, social networks, and so on. Then that support mostly vanished. Its users percentages are not inspiring.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think you mean IRC replacement.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Both. In my surroundings QIP was popular, a Jabber client with an ICQ gateway added from the start or something like that (maybe it just was a client of both). And the whole “roster with buddies and IM windows” thing was definitely more ICQ than IRC inspired.