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my memory was just of running Pidgin and being able to reach everyone through it (google, FB, weirdo self-hosters). guess it must have had good multi-accounting
by colinsane 3y ago
my memory was just of running Pidgin and being able to reach everyone through it (google, FB, weirdo self-hosters). guess it must have had good multi-accounting support and i was relying on that. i assumed it was using the same code paths for all my contacts, but if not then i guess the "FB used XMPP" point would be almost entirely moot.
- kevincox 3y agoI used FB Messenger over XMPP for the last handful of years before it was shut down using Pidgin and I'm pretty sure that's how it worked. You could talk to people on different networks but you needed your own FB account to talk on Messenger and you couldn't do group chats cross-network. GTalk and self-hosted XMPP could federate and you only needed one account and conversations could span servers.