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		jrockway on March 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google backslides on federated instant messaging, ... "Great is the enemy of good."

codemac on March 15, 2013 [–]

Most people on federated servers are specifically on servers like xmpp.us, jabber.org, etc that don't have associated email accounts.

This isn't perfect being the enemy of the good, it's a description of why it's not even good.

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