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by e12e 3035 days ago
In fairness, Facebook pulled a similar stunt with messenger. It's marginally redeeming that their Android messenger app isn't terrible, but really annoying to lose the xmpp client connect abilityability, and any useful desktop client.

Apparently Google did allow broken (no tls) server side federation too - so they screwed us over twice - both on client and server.