• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one

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      10 months ago

      AKA Embrace Extend Extinguish. A phrase that originally referred to a Microsoft plan, but it was implemented with XMPP and other web standards much more effectively by Google and, of course, Facebook.