If FB was a problem, Google could ban FB, and allow federation with those who federate back. They didn't and instead killed the whole thing. It was a pretty ba

If FB was a problem, Google could ban FB, and allow federation with those who federate back. They didn't and instead killed the whole thing. It was a pretty bad response in the terms of actually fixing the messed up IM situation. It only made it worse, basically axing XMPP adoption. Game theory doesn't advise doing that. Compare it to one ally defecting. Others defecting in response (instead of looking for more allies) means losing the whole campaign right away, which is exactly what happened. I don't use XMPP at all today and naturally none of my IM contacts are from Google or FB. Good thing something like Matrix is gaining traction. But I have little respect for Google today because of the above.