• squeakycat@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      XMPP still exists - and I use it for chatting with one person. Nobody I know uses it. Techies I know use IRC and, more recently, Matrix. Or discord, disappointingly enough.

      And I mention techies because the rest of the world is just happy with WhatsApp/Messenger/Slack et al.

      What I’m getting at is that XMPP feels pretty dead in my experience. But who knows, maybe it would be in this same position regardless of Google like you allude to.

    • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I never mentioned google. And sure, xmpp exists but it’s dead and would be much better off if not for big tech giants