[mftrhu]

An instance set up by Google would be likely de-federated on the next day, and it would be a good thing.

[phpisthebest]

People always complain that MS does the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish model but they never remember or refuse to acknowledge that a lot of these other big tech companies have and continue to do that the same thing

XMPP is but one of many protocols that were adopted by Big Tech, then once market share was achieved they took their users and walked away from the open internet