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AIM: dead. ICQ: dead. MSN: dead. Y! chat: dead. Google XMPP/Jabber: dead. IRC survived. Remember that.
@tomasino Still nobody using it, though.
I mean, I like a feel-good story as much as the next sophont, but what does people jumping from AIM to Jabber to Hipchat to Slack to the next shiny thing prove?
@akkartik @tomasino Dunno about that, I'm in at least 5 active IRC channels. It's not what it used to be, but it's very much alive.
Jabber is alive too, although struggling. Google Talk effectively defederated (by not implementing server-to-server TLS, and the rest of the world moved on) but I'm running my own Jabber server and host accounts for a few other people.
