I, and a lot of folks who do much remember #Google effectly left #XMPP in the wasteland back in the first half of the 2010s and we're still paying that price today.
Here's @ploum from this past June which still resonates and a huge warning to all of Fedi. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html