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It still is. Matrix, and other federated platforms, are exploding in popularity.

You could start here, if you are interested, to get a taste: https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/#creating-...

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I don't think this is what was meant by Adium being possible. At its peak, Adium acted as a single frontend to many different instant messaging networks to provide you a single user interface for chat. Today, we've regressed to a point where this is no longer really feasible; every network requires its own client.

Matrix has bridges, which allow you to send/receive messages to other services like Slack or Discord.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/

Also, as a different approach, to some degree Ferdium can act as a central place for various messaging platforms even if the integration that Pidgin (and Adium) and libPurple provided is not possible this way. Station is similar and a bit better but is in desperate need of developers. Both are FLOSS.

https://ferdium.org/

https://getstation.com/

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