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Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix (matrix.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And XMPP, used by the German police and NATO