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Re:Movim 0.16 – A federated web-based social XMPP client by saagarjha on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:12AM (#21563123)
I blame Hangouts.
Re:Movim 0.16 – A federated web-based social XMPP client by shantly on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:20AM (#21564049)
The need to capture users (and all the info you can about them) and claim territory is a lot of why we don’t have as much focus on standards anymore in web protocols.

So, as with many of the rest of the web’s problems, it’s spyvertising’s fault.