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[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

As a result, XMPP became worse off than it started and got practically forgotten by all but 1,5 nerds who keep it alive.

Is it even true? I doubt XMPP was ever popular outside of google's talk.

[–] Dieinahole@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Xmpp's popularity isn't the point.

The point is google intentionally killed it

[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How do you define if a communication protocol is dead? I use XMPP everyday, it works just well.

[–] nakal@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also, I doubt that Google wanted to destroy XMPP. They simply needed a chat then noticed it's crap for mobile devices. They wanted to offer their users seemless migration to the new proprietary protocol.

I was sad that Google stopped to use an official standard, but there are many better free options left.

[–] kpw@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

XMPP works great on mobile devices today. Google could have easily developed and published such extensions themselves.

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