Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).
I mean, they haven’t had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)
That seems more like a direct competitor to Slack and MS Team to me rather than general communication. Matrix is a facinating protocol that keeps pushing the limits of federated communication but it always sucked as replacment for those and unless someone invests huge amounts of money in a completely new client I don’t see taht changing any time soon tbh.
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I have to say “Element X” is a very unfortunate name choice …
I wanted to try Element X but apparently my self hosted server is not compatible.
Ah there is a solution for it https://github.com/matrix-org/sliding-sync I guess I could try to install it.
Yeah I was able to install sliding-sync on Dendrite without issues. A bit surprising that I didn’t see any guides made for it yet.
There was a how-to video linked in one of the articles.
Did you find docs? I did a cursory glance around late last week and ended up just shrugging assuming that’s what I got for using Dendrite (positive)
Edit: Turns out, when running sliding-sync you really only need to patch the
.well-known/matrix/clientconfigurationJesus just go back to calling it Riot.IM the name keeps getting stupider and more corporate.
Riot games forced them to change the name.
Calm down, it’s not a rename, it’s a name for the preview client only. Temporary.
Matrix has had a bit of trouble penetrating the enterprise market, which is where the real money is. Hence the corporate-speak rename.
I mean, they haven’t had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)
In the meantime the French dropped them
Their main competitor in the open-source, self-hosted space is Mattermost, which has a much more business-oriented solution, so there’s that as well.
And XMPP, used by the German police and NATO
That seems more like a direct competitor to Slack and MS Team to me rather than general communication. Matrix is a facinating protocol that keeps pushing the limits of federated communication but it always sucked as replacment for those and unless someone invests huge amounts of money in a completely new client I don’t see taht changing any time soon tbh.
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I think it’s supposed to become just normal element when it gets feature parity with current element
It is just a codename, Element X is going to be just Element once it replace the old one.
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Yeah, it sounds like it’s sponsored by Elon Musk.