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Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
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google hangouts is proprietary and xmpp/jabber still exists.
Hangouts was built on xmpp, and used to allow federation. Yes xmpp still exists but it's functionally dead.
google talk was built on it; hangouts is a completely new application.
xmpp is still around; it's just competing with matrix.
Yes you are correct, I had the two reversed in my head.