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Umm ... XMPP is not being dropped only support for XMPP federation.

• claudius 13y ago
  And what’s the point of XMPP if you drop federation?
  • nileshtrivedi 13y ago
    Well, you can continue using third-party XMPP clients like Pidgin. Federation has the inherent problem of spamming. I think whitelisting domains could have been a way out.
    • claudius 13y ago
      I’ve been using XMPP for quite a while, first on jabber.ccc.de, then on my own server (and on a Google account in parallel), but have so far not received a single spam message. Is XMPP spamming really a thing?
      • nileshtrivedi 13y ago
        That's what Google claims: Chee Chew said that "we haven't seen significant uptake" in federation with Google Talk via server-to-server connections. The majority of the uptake Google did see was from organizations or individuals looking to bombard Google Talk users with chat spam, Chew said. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hands-on-with-hangouts-googles-new-text-and-video-chat-architecture/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hands-... This is the original email thread with more details when Google disabled XMPP federation for a while in GTalk: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001571.html http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-February/001...
• gwern 13y ago
  The quote is 'XMPP entirely'; what do you base your claim on?