&gt;XMPP is dead.<p>Oh? The last I checked there were well over 100 public XMPP servers listed at IM Observatory. Those servers are federated. What would it take for XMPP to be not dead?<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xmpp.net&#x2F;directory.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xmpp.net&#x2F;directory.php</a><p>Note that there are several popular server implementations in actual use and that the release dates for the software currently on the net mostly happened this year.<p>The thing is, all an IM provider has to do is create a XMPP transport for their protocol using the tons of existing XMPP software freely available and then you have XMPP federation. It isn&#x27;t even that hard. So it always seems odd to hear that people absolutely can&#x27;t interconnect with a large operating network that embodies the closest thing we have to an IM interoperability standard.<p>One thing shown not to work is creating yet another protocol under the theory that everyone else will become compatible with it. If you do that you are just wasting your time.