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.
Anything federated is not as popular as major centralized alternatives, but they are just so much nicer. Whole concept smells more of the old Internet which I love. I donate a bit to instances I’m using. It’s better than being watched for everything.
Matrix was built to become the open communication of the web and serve everyone
Patently false, just look at its resource consumption as is with other nu-protocols.
Big L for those institutions, they should have picked XMPP, the open commnication to serve actually everyone.
While XMPP isn’t perfect - I hear video conferencing is a huge m:m lag-fest for almost every implementation, and webrtc too - it’s a good platform to expand because it has an excellent base.
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.
I dont know if this might hurt them. Zero knowledge and e2ee are cool, but I dont know if they are even allowed to use this.
I only know from the US signal clone that archived all contents.
Matrix is really limited and many issues come from the encryption. It works, but it is VERY different from horror tools like MS Teams.
If all they need are powerful servers that can store everything, Fluxer is probably better already, or other tools.
