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There were a few months more than 10 years ago when you could use one XMPP client for all your various social/chat accounts. I want to say around 2008 ?

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More than a few months, I used that for years. Even after Google announced the shutting down of their XMPP service, it worked for years.

Yes... I remember using pidgin for that, and I believe there was some kind of proxy I used to link up IRC too. Those were the days.

same, that was the golden era of IM, using Pidgin for MSN, fb, google,...

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