What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet)

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A discussion thread I got pulled into on Mastodon had me suddenly nostalgic for something we once had on the Internet, and which was really nice while it lasted: the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol , or XMPP , or sometimes referred to by its original name, Jabber. 

 What kicked off the discussion was somebody asking about a more modern 'decentralized chat platform' known as…

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