Matrix was built to become the open communication of the web and serve everyone. But, as the Internet and email did, its network effect started with governments. Today, and as proven by the audience in the room, most European governments and several others are either using it or looking at implementing it for their communications. This talk will tell the story of how we got there and why.
Speaking from experience, matrix is still kinda rough around the edges if you have a 100+ person group with non-technical users.
More broadly, pretty much all of the secure messengers currently have an ~O(N^2) problem with state sync in groups. The only one that isn’t deeply frustrating is Signal and that’s largely because it has very few features and can’t be self hosted.
It sucks because it feels SOOOO close. I had my own server setup but setting up a client was so very hard. And it was hard to explain to friends/family how to set it up.
My CPU on my tiny server was being used like crazy for matrix.
Video is a year old, but still relevant I think.
Here’s this years discussion: https://youtu.be/cQjUjM_OAcw
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