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There is at least one major attempt at addressing this fragmentation with a modern protocol, that being the Matrix protocol (matrix.org). Yeah, if it takes off
by Skunkleton 9y ago
There is at least one major attempt at addressing this fragmentation with a modern protocol, that being the Matrix protocol (matrix.org). Yeah, if it takes off then it will just be yet another bit of fragmentation, but at least it is designed in such a way that chats dont get siloed into a single echosystem.
- joshlemer 9y agoI have to say that, although I began to use Matrix for the open source / open protocol aspects, their flagship client Riot is actually much more fully featured than most other propriety products. For sure it is much more useful than Google Hangouts and I'd say about equal to Slack in terms of user experience and features.
- Skunkleton 9y agoRiot is impressive, especially for something so new. Equally impressive is how trivial it is to create plugins to bridge to other protocols. For example: https://github.com/ImmanuelBaskaran/Hangouts-Bridge/blob/master/Hangouts%20Bridge.py https://github.com/ImmanuelBaskaran/Hangouts-Bridge/blob/mas...