> And because there were far more Google talk users than "true XMPP" users, there was little room for "not caring about Google talk users". Sounds like it was

> And because there were far more Google talk users than "true XMPP" users, there was little room for "not caring about Google talk users". Sounds like it was already centralized even before Google stopped supporting XMPP. The truth is that users do t really care about decentralization, they care about features, ease of use, and quality of implementation. Once a majority of the uses move single implementation of the protocol, the single implementation protocol itself becomes more important than the standard.