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Re:Slack is down by lallysingh on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#25637320)
Spam killed xmpp
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Re:Slack is down by spicyramen on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:40PM (#25637561)
I remember using clients like pidgin with all my accounts it was a great experience. Now I need to have like 100 apps
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Re:Slack is down by pmlnr on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:23PM (#25639104)
BS

The only thing "killed" XMPP was that proprietary made money, XMPP didn't.

Apart from that, it's alive and well. See Conversations for android, Prosody for server.

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Re:Slack is down by BlueTemplar on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:28PM (#25639729)
What are you talking about ?? You need to confirm each other before communicating on XMPP, spam can't get through that !
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