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There was a point in history where both facebook and google offered XMPP with federation to their chats You could just join any XMPP server and chat with your

• peteradio 3y ago
  MBA has entered the chat.
• singpolyma3 3y ago
  Facebook never offered federated XMPP. They did offer federated email for a short while.
  • severak_cz 3y ago
    They provided XMPP gate - it did not federated with other servers but you were able to use multi-account client (e.g. Pidgin) and have it everything in one window. I did exactly that.
  • sseagull 3y ago
    I seem to remember being able to chat with Facebook users from my personal server, but it doesn’t look like it was possible [1]. Actually, searching for this stuff made me sad :( There are blog posts from Facebook still up about how they are using XMPP [2]. There are still notes out there on setting it up in Pidgin [3]. The internet has become a walled-off mess, and it makes me depressed to see such a powerful and wonderful technology abused like this. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5052780/integrating-facebook-chat#5056915 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5052780/integrating-face... [2] https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/ https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/110/ [3] https://m.facebook.com/notes/socialblogr/how-to-setup-facebook-chat-in-pidgin-with-jabberxmpp/371950911048/ https://m.facebook.com/notes/socialblogr/how-to-setup-facebo... PS: looking through the other posts on the fb developer blog (just changing the number in the url) is interesting.