I grew up at this time and never heard of XMPP. Most kids I know used AIM or MSN, which eventually got replaced by a combination of Myspace/Facebook/Skype and SMS on our cell phones (especially when mobile plans started commonly offering unlimited talk and text plans). I feel like those products became far more of a blow to services like jabber than google talk who I don't remember anyone really using. I could be wrong though

Been here for a couple weeks, I've enjoyed it so far. Some niche communities are missing but I think Lemmy is a good time and I love the vision

My friend mentioned Reddit is Fun is shut down now. Sad day 😔