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• millie@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that I haven’t had anything equivalent to Pidgin or Trillian installed in over a decade says otherwise. When Facebook became big it literally wiped out the active userbase of 4 concurrently relevant instant messaging platforms.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The fact that I haven’t had anything equivalent to Pidgin or Trillian installed in over a decade says otherwise

    And what does it mean that I’ve never even heard of either of these?

    When Facebook became big it literally wiped out the active userbase of 4 concurrently relevant instant messaging platforms.

    Facebook never interoperated with any of those, or any other platforms, so I’m not sure what your point is.

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    • millie@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And what does it mean that I’ve never even heard of either of these?

      Exactly.

      Facebook never interoperated with any of those, or any other platforms, so I’m not sure what your point is.

      Facebook messenger literally integrated with XMPP to do exactly what Meta is clearly planning with Threads. It’s right out of their own playbook. You are factually incorrect.

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      • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        XMPP commited suicide when for several years it refused to standardize on file/image transfer, and audio/video calls.

        Guess what end-users kept demanding, and kept failing with XMPP.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly

        LOL you don’t realize that you’re proving my point.

        They added compatibility in 2010, then scrubbed it in 2015.

        And…those services suddenly stopped functioning?

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