This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps chat with Matthew Hodgson and Josh Simmons about Matrix, the open source decentralized communications platform. How is Matrix a Git for Communications? Are the new EU and UK laws going to be a problem? And how is the Matrix project connected with the Element company?
– https://matrix.org/blog
– https://element.io/
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*sigh* People are always trying to reinvent IRC. Seriously, just use IRC, it’s a good system.
End to end encrypted? Includes phone and video calls? No. Matrix is a modern project that just happens to remind you of IRC.
Is there a one pager for Matrix?
Would be great for those of short on time.
I did look over the websites linked in the article, but didn’t get a strong understanding and thought it was more of a modern NNTP type thing.
We’ve been using OTR with IRC for nearly two decades. There’s a lot of functionality that you can build on a relay network that supports both in-band and out-of-band communications.
I don’t have a problem with someone inventing something that fills the same role as IRC but is strictly better. But it really does have to be better. I used SILC for a few years, but it has faded into obscurity now. Mostly because it didn’t offer enough over IRC, lacked clients, and early server implementations had major limitations.
>We’ve been using OTR with IRC for nearly two decades.
On Matrix, E2EE is the default.
On IRC, it isn’t, and will likely never be.
>I used SILC for a few years, but it has faded into obscurity now.
Matrix is already orders of magnitude over whatever traction SILC ever had.
I understand it is already above IRC, for that matter.
Hackaday matrix space when?