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I used Pidgin/Adium back in the day to consolidate all my IM protocols. There was a hot second where XMPP was really taking off and even worked on Gchat. I thin

I used Pidgin/Adium back in the day to consolidate all my IM protocols. There was a hot second where XMPP was really taking off and even worked on Gchat. I think iMessage and WhatsApp made that moot because people got used to apps, and did not pay attention to the protocol. All the cool messenger tech that I want to use is buried under user experiences that drive off normies accustomed to iMessage. I have made peace with it and use Signal instead.

hnbear 3y ago
iChat, Apple’s earlier messenger worked with XMPP too. There was a small period it looked like it would be a good standard app.
- geraldhh 3y ago
  texting an iphone from the cli of a sun-sparc workstation truly felt like calling a fax-machine and getting something useful out of it