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I fear this will lead to the same problem: If it’s interesting enough for Google, they will offer a free service, gobble up a large number of users, at which po
by tqkxzugoaupvwqr 8y ago
I fear this will lead to the same problem: If it’s interesting enough for Google, they will offer a free service, gobble up a large number of users, at which point they can hold the new protocol hostage, add their own extensions, and everyone else must follow.
- sneak 8y agoIt’s called XMPP, and Google ran a public gateway federating for Google Talk. Basically nobody used it, and what little use it did see was mostly third parties sending spam to Google users over the gateway, so they shut it down. Centralized systems seem to give users what they want. This is why iMessage, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Instagram are huge, and email is dying (and XMPP failed to get any real traction in the first place).