About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications.

Matrix Manifesto We believe:

People should have full control over their own communication. People should not be locked into centralised communication silos, but instead be free to pick who they choose to host their communication without limiting who they can reach. The ability to converse securely and privately is a basic human right. Communication should be available to everyone as a free and open, unencumbered, standard and global network.

  • ryan659@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I still don’t see why we can’t just use IRC anymore. The protocol itself is old but reliable, and just needs a good client or two to help people compare it to Discord a bit more favourably. Though I suppose the need for a BNC to fully match it is probably a bit much of an ask for most.

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      1 year ago

      IRC not allowing users to receive messages while offline, not having multiple synced clients, not natively supporting media, not supporting voice or video calls makes it a complete non-starter.

    • EthicalAI@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It takes a lot of work to support encryption and it’s definitely not end to end

      It’s not really federated, you make a new account for each server I think.

      needs rich messaging support. At very least markdown. Matrix supports images.