Comment by realityfactchex
18 hours ago
> you're gonna be talking to yourself.
IMO, Matrix is definitely the best protocol for sending oneself messages in a running thread across all of one's devices. That is one excellent use case, and it's a real one.
It is also great for the same thing, but with other users, too. I have no idea why its current uptake is so slow among small groups. Is it the apps? The fact that you need to find or join a host (or self host)? Merely being "one more app" and "unknown"?
I wonder what the Matrix team is doing to smooth out whatever adoption issues it has. I think it is worthy of more adoption.
The adoption issues are basically that the team who created Matrix (led by me) have ended up burning a lot of energy making the core protocol and implementations work well, and then chasing govtech revenue as a way to fund development: https://element.io/blog/digital-sovereignty-is-built-on-an-o... etc. As a result consumer uptake doesn’t have the focus it should have. We will return to it as soon as we can, however; meanwhile there’s nothing stopping others doing it too.
Thanks for the insight, and, as the sibling wrote, all the work.
Thank you for all of your work.