• Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    How is Matrix enterprise-y and struggling with adoption? Many hackers I know use it, Lemmy has a Matrix field in your profile which lets you send Matrix messages directly and there’s no vendor lock in due to the fact the protocol and all implementations are open.

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        And what’s your proposed solution? They not make any money on their cool FOSS project and die while taking money from google and fade away slowly like Firefox?

        Also there’s a lot of catch up with messaging apps thats happening to attain feature parity with the likes of slack, discord or twist. So it is bound to happen. Have you seen any of the cool projects built on top of the protocol?

        Its gaining traction … The network effect is an issue but there are a lot of Foss projects and communities on matrix even for less known ones (And they aren’t bridged).

        We need a self hosted messaging service, XMPP is good but there’s room for other ideas to achieve something similar. Matrix and XMPP try to achieve similar goals differently. Wouldn’t hurt to have more protocols in this space.

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          amdocs was an early founder and funder for matrix development, now they may remain as a shareholder

          the matrix foundation isn’t majority element employees, I’d say the situation is better than with most open source projects developed by commercial entities