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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by ljm on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:49PM (#38649111)
Adium was a total lifesaver on Mac since there was never an official MSN messenger client there.

Back then a lot of services also used XMPP but that has been readily abandoned - Slack used to do XMPP, doesn't any more. Google used to do XMPP, doesn't any more...

I suppose one reason for it is E2E encryption.

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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by albert180 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:53PM (#38649172)
That's also possible with XMPP and Matrix. They just liked to get away with closing their fences
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by alwayslikethis on Thursday December 14, 2023 @06:55PM (#38649190)
I think their switch away from XMPP predates E2EE and some of them still aren't using E2EE, so that's not the real reason. XMPP has good E2EE now with OMEMO though.
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Re:Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggestin... by jen20 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:06PM (#38649789)
> since there was never an official MSN messenger client there.

There certainly was: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/989-msn-messenger-2-5-1

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