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Comment by RadiozRadioz

2 hours ago

What are the reasons Matrix is the winner? Are they inherent to the protocol itself or something else?

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Arathorn  2 hours ago

Matrix has a pretty comprehensive featureset with clients across a broad range of platforms.

The accusations of it being overengineered come typically due to the Synapse server implementation being slow. This is basically an artefact of Matrix being quite complicated to provide a byzantine fault tolerant decentralised equivalent to WhatsApp or Slack etc - and time has gone into fixing stability and usability rather than performance. Meanwhile performance is getting better, but progress is slow due to tragedy-of-the-commons related funding challenges. We will get there in the end, though.

  • RadiozRadioz  2 hours ago

    Thanks for the response Matthew! But please go to sleep!

    Yes it's unfortunate how much Synapse's unperformant implementation has decreased general confidence in the protocol itself. I'm confident it will get better