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• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hangouts was built on xmpp, and used to allow federation. Yes xmpp still exists but it’s functionally dead.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    google talk was built on it; hangouts is a completely new application.

    xmpp is still around; it’s just competing with matrix.

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    • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes you are correct, I had the two reversed in my head.

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