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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by lordCarbonFiber on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:26PM (#13951526)
If you're looking for a future in federated chat: matrix.org. I think there's real potential in the protocol and Im slowing moving most of my chat activity there.
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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by shmerl on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:29PM (#13951553)
Matrix looks interesting, though I'm not sure why they use HTTP for transport. Sounds a bit counter intuitive, since HTTP was never built for proper duplex communication. XMPP (in the browser) had to use BOSH to work around that, then came WebSockets, WebRTC and so on.

Another intereting one is Tox.

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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by ptman on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:46PM (#13952498)
Less problems with firewalls?
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