> XMPP federation was a great idea, but it never had adoption, And your alternative @ google was yet another closed source protocol that doesn't work with any

> XMPP federation was a great idea, but it never had adoption, And your alternative @ google was yet another closed source protocol that doesn't work with any other closed source protocol(obviously, because they are closed source). Now imagine if the internet worked that way, Google wouldn't be where it is today.