Comment by RadiozRadioz
3 years ago
I have noticed this too about gen-Z XMPP ignorance, IRC seems more widely known despite many of them growing up using XMPP. Perhaps gen-Z were too young to care back then, and nowadays open IRC communities appear more plentiful.
Sure. When we were teens/early adults using (a)MSN/AIM/Gtalk they were either toddlers or young children. Too young to be aware.
When they became teens classical IM platforms began to decay/rot because of social media and mobile messengers.