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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then somehow “broke” in a way that messages from GTalk were coming through, but anything coming from Jabber wasn’t arriving.

Google intentionally turned off XMPP federation in its chat product.

I'd attribute it to malice, but looking at how badly Google has repeatedly mismanaged its chat offerings I'm going with Hanlon's razor here. They did claim spam was an issue as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I guess I was lucky enough to avoid spam, but I believe you.

As for them doing it unintentionally, I dunno... They did very similar thing to Usenet as well (although in that case spam had a major part.

I think Google's way of operating is to try new things and see what sticks. Once it gets popular figure out if it can generate revenue and if it doesn't, quickly shut it down.