That's manipulation of history. XMPP federation was actually still working on the Google Talk servers even as recently as a couple years ago. However, Google ou

That's manipulation of history. XMPP federation was actually still working on the Google Talk servers even as recently as a couple years ago. However, Google outright refused to update their XMPP server capabilities. I am not talking about refusing to implement the latest XEPs (which they don't), I am talking that they didn't even bother to implement SSL! https://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-google-talk/ https://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-goog... Google was kicked by the other servers out of federation due to their abandonment way before Google turned it off. And it was always flacky to begin with, specially since they also started dropping 3rd party clients (and for that you can't blame spam...). And even if one argues that Google ignored federation because of spam and/or low usage, OP's claim that they did that "for their own advantage, making the world poorer" would still be valid.