'Matrix' Network Hits 60 Million Users, Improving the Demand for Decentralized Communication
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Matrix is an open-source standard for decentralized communication. It is constantly evolving to the requirements of modern solutions keeping in mind the privacy of users. You will find Matrix clients as a replacement for Slack, Microsoft Teams, and several other popular communication platforms. And, to re-affirm the adoption of decentralized

Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.

    • flux@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Indeed strange without quantifying that number in any way, but at least it still sort of tells that you can reach 60 milion people (or bots ;)) via Matrix, even if 30 million of them don’t use it.

    • smallcircles@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Such easy round single numbers do well in advocacy of the technology. In the Netherlands the social network project PubHubs has just started (with some serious backers, like Dutch public broadcasters, 2 universities), and they’ll use the Matrix protocol. Though they will be cryptographically separated from the rest of the Matrix network. In their presentations couple of weeks ago they mentioned a Matrix user base of 30 something million, influencing their technology choice. And I was like “Huh? Wow. That’s a lot”.

    • singpolyma@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      By that count we could also count every Matrix user as a Jabber user. And every SMS user!