We ported Diaspora to use an XMPP backend (the Buddycloud backend). It was a nice proof of concept: https://github.com/bnolan/diaspora-x2 https://github.com/bno

We ported Diaspora to use an XMPP backend (the Buddycloud backend). It was a nice proof of concept: https://github.com/bnolan/diaspora-x2 https://github.com/bnolan/diaspora-x2 The new Buddycloud web client is basically that taken "to the max". You log in with your XMPP account, the Buddycloud channel server handles the channel pubsub, and the rest is plain XMPP federation. If you're interested in XMPP-federated social networks, check out http://buddycloud.com/ http://buddycloud.com/