[liberationtech] Do you have any thoughts on Matrix.org?

[Jonathan Frederickson]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Yosem Companys <companys at tmp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> I hadn't seen it before. It describes itself as "An open network for secure,
> decentralized communication." See: http://matrix.org/

I've been a daily user of Matrix for the last few years, and I run my
own Matrix server. I really like it - it solves a lot of the issues I
have with XMPP. Notably, server-side history is treated as a
first-class citizen, and it even works with end-to-end encrypted
rooms! (The clients hold the keys, the server holds the encrypted
messages.)

End-to-end encryption is still a bit spotty (and therefore still
disabled by default) but aside from a few corner cases it usually
works pretty well. They're working on it.

Also looks like someone has already made a libtech Matrix room, by the
way: https://matrix.to/#/#liberationtech:matrix.org