Re:Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
by bigbugbag on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:31AM
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Afaik facebook was designed to be a closed walled garden from the get go and never offered interoperability despite using xmpp at first.
Google gtalk predates facebook and happened at different times, IIRC the change to a closed chat service was a reaction due to facebook abusing the openness to scrape contacts.
Google gtalk predates facebook and happened at different times, IIRC the change to a closed chat service was a reaction due to facebook abusing the openness to scrape contacts.