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

[Jonathan Frederickson]

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Yosem Companys <companys at tmp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> So is it like using Diaspora?

In the sense that it's federated, yes. But unlike Diaspora it's a
real-time chat system similar to Slack. (Well, most existing UIs
present it that way - in reality it's a protocol for sending arbitrary
JSON between clients in a room in real time, and persisting that data
for later retrieval.)

>From a user's perspective, it's kind of like a mix between XMPP and
Slack, with XMPP's federation features and Slack's focus on multi-user
chats and persistent history.