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Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Ansgar to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because there aren't. That was a dumb blog post.

If Google Talk never supported XMPP it still would have had millions of users and XMPP would have died years earlier. That wasn't EEE, that was Google keeping an open protocol alive for a while until they decided not to.