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0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoWhat was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off?
It was slowly gaining a user base. It was a good alternative to MSN Messenger and other big corp messaging protocols (Yahoo Talk or whatever it was called).
misk@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That is true. Discord - gaming, Messenger - FB. Google just couldn’t tie it with any social network, so it flopped… and their numerous attempts at creating one.