Matrix is run by a single for-profit company (the foundation is a joke, all members are employed by or closely affiliated to that single company), and their main paying customers are government and enterprise clients.
As for vendor lock-in: there sort of is. There is only one single fully functional homeserver implementation (Synapse) and it does not follow the official specs, but rather the specs follow it, meaning alternative implementations have to constantly play catch up with incomplete information. But I agree that it could be worse.
As for adoption: Matrix user numbers are hugely inflated, except for channels of organizations that have officially adopted Matrix (see above) and those bridged to IRC it is in my experience mostly a ghost town.
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.
Matrix is run by a single for-profit company (the foundation is a joke, all members are employed by or closely affiliated to that single company), and their main paying customers are government and enterprise clients.
As for vendor lock-in: there sort of is. There is only one single fully functional homeserver implementation (Synapse) and it does not follow the official specs, but rather the specs follow it, meaning alternative implementations have to constantly play catch up with incomplete information. But I agree that it could be worse.
As for adoption: Matrix user numbers are hugely inflated, except for channels of organizations that have officially adopted Matrix (see above) and those bridged to IRC it is in my experience mostly a ghost town.
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.