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		hot_gril on Aug 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are t... Federation doesn't mean you can use any client. It means you can talk to clients on other (in this case non-Google) servers, which is a step further.

NPtzH9DW9Ejxxa9 on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

... oops :)

The two reasons were supposed to be reach and client choice. I got a bit side-tracked thinking about whether I should clarify that I was able to reach most of my contacts on it because of the "Gmail integration and federation".

hot_gril on Aug 5, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, the client choice was very nice. I used it too, with iChat on my Mac.

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