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

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      > The press release you’re looking for is no longer available.
      Please use the menu above to view other relevant releases. heh
      Now I wonder whether I should delete the posts that I made on Reddit.

      actually, Matthew (the main Matrix dude) clarified this:

      the >60M users (actual figure is 64M) is based on the phone-home reporting to matrix.org that synapse optionally does
      the graph looks like this:
      Screenshot 2022-07-14 at 10.58.51.png
      of these, around 30M are natively on Matrix (the others are bridged in from other platforms)
      and of those about 14M are long-term matrix users

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          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.

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          It’s more like Matrix is using them

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          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”.

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

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      Given Matrix’s decentralized nature, I don’t think they can count active users.

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        Perhaps but they can still count many. Plus the vast majority of users are on one server