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		hesk on May 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the ... I don't know about Facebook but Google Talk was federated at some point [1]. [1] https://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html

Lammy on May 26, 2020 [–]

Yep, Google's was. They never enabled server-to-server TLS, though, so GTalk was effectively cut off from the federated XMPP network after May 2014 when that became mandatory: https://blog.prosody.im/mandatory-encryption-on-xmpp-starts-...

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