Previous discussion about the death of XMPP:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10483936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10483936</a><p>My comment from that thread:<p>&gt; I&#x27;ve been running my own XMPP server for years, with federation enabled. A few years ago, it seemed like the logical successor to AIM and MSN and all those other walled garden IM systems. And how easy! My XMPP &quot;name&quot; was the same as my email address. One less thing to put on my business card.<p>&gt; But since then, I have realised a big problem with it - no-one uses it! Today I communicate with the world by iMessage, SMS, Twitter, and email. &quot;Instant messaging&quot; just seems to have died as a concept entirely, replaced by yet more walled gardens like Snapchat.<p>&gt; My XMPP server is being turned off for good, next week.<p>(It has since been turned off.)