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by stock_toaster 1682 days ago
Once upon a time, google chat (neé gchat) _was_ that killer app. For a brief time there was glorious federated communication between several IM vendors, self hosted open source servers, and gchat.

Then google killed it all by dropping xmpp/jabber support in gchat, and others soon followed.
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e12e 1681 days ago
I don't think there ever was federation support? Or maybe you were an earlier adopter than me, and talk of a time before they killed federation?
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syntaxfree 1681 days ago
At one point with Apple’s Continuity I had Gchat, Facebook messenger and SMS on a single window in my MacBook.
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e12e 1680 days ago
Yes, but with only a single xmpp account, that federated access to gchat, fb?
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stock_toaster 1680 days ago
Yes, at one point I ran my own prosody jabber/xmpp server and regularly chatted through it with friends who were gchat users. Even had presence (idle , busy, etc) support! It worked amazingly.

First they killed federation, then they killed xmpp support entirely.

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