And to use it with a similar feature set, everyone is using different extensions which also have to be supported by the clients. I know there is this one server implementation (name escapes me at the moment) and Conversations on the client side, but it’s hardly the standard and we’re not really talking about plain XMPP then anymore.

Nobody is talking about Diaspora anymore ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

If you think search engine giants like Google can’t track you when you’re not logged in, you think wrong.

There have already been projects like that in the cryptocurrency space.