Matrix was built to become the open communication of the web and serve everyone. But, as the Internet and email did, its network effect started with governments. Today, and as proven by the audience in the room, most European governments and several others are either using it or looking at implementing it for their communications. This talk will tell the story of how we got there and why.
I’d say that’s a mentality problem- XMPP is for messaging (and, to a slightly lesser extent, conferencing). Things like calls, audio, video, streaming should be left to non-nu protocols of their own. FOSS trying to chase the corporate cumblock of “Everything App” is a major component of why things are made that are quite bloated and difficult to bootstrap. It is also a huge component of corporate / antisocial media walled gardening and network effects.
Heck, by the same token I’d say if what you want is simple texting where authentication / grouping are not much of an issue or are covered by an overlying layer, XMPP is actually bloated too and we could just use IRC. Basically, something like modern beepers.