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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Non-native_deployments

There was a brief moment in time where everyone used the same federated instant messaging protocol.

You could make an account on say, jabber.org or any other XMPP provider, and use it to chat to a friend even if they were using Facebook or Google Talk.

Eventually I guess the giants realised it was more profitable to hoarde all the users, rather than afford the maintenance burden of running common infrastructure for the greater good. So they defederated, and now almost nobody uses XMPP.