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      7 months ago

      The fact that I haven’t had anything equivalent to Pidgin or Trillian installed in over a decade says otherwise. When Facebook became big it literally wiped out the active userbase of 4 concurrently relevant instant messaging platforms.

      As far as I can tell they seem to have at this point largely been supplanted by Discord.

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          And what does it mean that I’ve never even heard of either of these?

          Exactly.

          Facebook never interoperated with any of those, or any other platforms, so I’m not sure what your point is.

          Facebook messenger literally integrated with XMPP to do exactly what Meta is clearly planning with Threads. They added compatibility in 2010, then scrubbed it in 2015. It’s right out of their own playbook. Your assertion is factually incorrect.