I'm giving up on IM
Read OriginalThe author, a long-time advocate of the open XMPP protocol, declares its practical death due to network closures and client fragmentation. They discuss the modern IM landscape's regression to proprietary, siloed networks like Hangouts, Messenger, and WhatsApp, leading to a lack of a universal successor and the inconvenience of managing multiple clients.
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