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I remember reading about XMPP several years ago and how it was going to be a universal chat protocol that was also decentralized. I think Facebook and Google ch

by wppick 8y ago

I remember reading about XMPP several years ago and how it was going to be a universal chat protocol that was also decentralized. I think Facebook and Google chat implemented the protocol at one point

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Jtsummers 8y ago
XMPP is a federated protocol. Google supported federation for a time, but dropped federation in 2013 which cut off a lot of people from being reached if you didn't use Google Talk yourself. I'm not sure any of the other big players in messaging support XMPP federation.