@hisham_hm@mastodon.social @fiercemilder@mastodon.ie Note that there was not even "we will be sunsetting XMPP at the end of the year" notice. Google Talk defederated from the rest of the XMPP world silently and left its users under impression that it's all their friends on other servers that went offline. There was neither an advance warning nor official explanation post factum.