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It's true that XMPP got a shot in the arm when Goggle et al connected their chat servers to the open federation. Then the opposite when they defederated.
But there's still an active and growing community chatting over decentralised XMPP federation;
https://search.jabber.network/rooms/
Lots of the growth in usage is happening outside the US, eg the crew behind @prav
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