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When I mention Matrix, a lot of people seem to pigeonhole it as a chat system alone because Riot is such a dominating part of the application ecosystem. It wou
by buzzybee 10y ago
When I mention Matrix, a lot of people seem to pigeonhole it as a chat system alone because Riot is such a dominating part of the application ecosystem.
It would be really great to have more code and demonstrations available; adding Matrix was suggested for Mastodon[0] to potentially gain chat and private messaging features that aren't part of GNUSocial, but as of right now it's considered out of scope.
[0] https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/ https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/
- Arathorn 10y agoHum, just found the bug at https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/issues/311 https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon/issues/311 - shame that folks there haven't grokked what Matrix is. Yes, pigeonholing it as a chat system is kinda missing the point, but it's an easy way to kick the tyres and prove its potential. Once threading lands in Matrix we'll be adding in gateways for SMTP, IMAP, NNTP, Discourse, and possibly Gnusocial etc - either written by us or from the community. Then hopefully the bigger picture will be more obvious(!)
- NoGravitas 10y agoI would love to see a full-federated email-like (as opposed to chat-like) system built on top of Matrix.