Of course users don&#x27;t benefit. But the operators of the walled-gardens do! I can&#x27;t even understand how federated XMPP had any support from the large players in the first place - it&#x27;s absolutely against their economical interests.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest - we live in times when &quot;federated&quot; email communication would also be abandoned (with Facebook becoming the de facto platform for personal communication) if not the business users.