It's true that not every XEP moved out of draft status and that big players closed federation but there are new XEPs that are being worked on (OMEMO, HTTP Uploa

It's true that not every XEP moved out of draft status and that big players closed federation but there are new XEPs that are being worked on (OMEMO, HTTP Upload). Google and DDG do not provide Matrix servers and probably will never do (big players are not interested in federation in general, not just XMPP), but isn't the entire point of federation that you host your own? Check out conversations.im and dino.im for modern clients.