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by esotericsean 3104 days ago
You'll still be able to use AIM if you setup a private server? I need to look into this.
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As nyolfen mentioned, XMPP is just a competing, decentralized protocol for AIM-like chat. It has a similar feature set and works with most third-party AIM clients.
If you ever get around to making a private OSCAR based server and publish the code somewhere please let us know.
no, xmpp is not aim