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 <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tinode/id1483763538"><img src="docs/app-store.svg" height=36></a> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.tinode.tindroidx"><img src="docs/play-store.svg" height=36></a> <a href="https://web.tinode.co/"><img src="docs/web-app.svg" height=36></a>
 
-[According to its creators](https://habr.com/ru/articles/1022914/), Tinode is used as a backend for the [Russian National Messenger Max](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(app)), claiming active users exceeding 40 million.
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 ## Why?
 
 The promise of [XMPP](http://xmpp.org/) was to deliver federated instant messaging: anyone would be able to spin up an IM server capable of exchanging messages with any other XMPP server in the world. Unfortunately, XMPP never delivered on this promise. Instant messengers are still a bunch of incompatible walled gardens, similar to what AoL of the late 1990s was to the open Internet.