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@fionafokus The involvement of VC was always one of the (many) reasons the user community has been wary of .

XMPP is still around, improving all the time, and backed by communities and non-VC-funded companies.

is freedom-respecting software, and scalable enough for WhatsApp, League of Legends, and Nintendo Switch Push Notifications - dare I say even "nation-scale".