You must have been pretty young back then or ignorant. It was trivial to find a public XMPP server in 2004 and there were dozens of bridges that connected ICQ/IRC/AIM/MSN/Yahoo without the need of multi-clients which were popular at the time. Sounds pretty thriving to me, but please tell me again how Meta and Google are gonna give you a pony this time
calvinbacon
joined 11 months ago
Jabber/XMPP had more daily active users than GMail. They used it as a trojan horse. Get off their tip