JC Brand
I'm reminded of "Year of Linux on the desktop" memes.
XMPP is used all over the place. Fortnight (200m users), Twitch, Google Cloud Print and many others.
The issue is that XMPP as general "federated social network" has failed to gain traction, so people think the protocol is "dead".
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