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There's nothing about the Matrix protocol that makes it better for one or the other though; it's a pretty general messaging protocol. Riot looks more like Slack

There's nothing about the Matrix protocol that makes it better for one or the other though; it's a pretty general messaging protocol. Riot looks more like Slack, yes, but there are other clients that look more like SMS apps, e.g.: https://dittochat.org/ https://dittochat.org/

godelski 6y ago
THANKS! This actually clears things up better than the other comments. Is there a list of these things somewhere so I can learn more?
- ryukafalz 6y ago
  This is probably the best place to start: https://matrix.org/clients https://matrix.org/clients And of course more broadly, Matrix as a whole isn't even limited to only messaging apps, although that's where most of the focus has been thus far. There have been some fun demos/projects in the past though: - Synchronized presentation slides: https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-presents https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-presents - MIDI over Matrix: https://github.com/McOmghall/midi-over-matrix https://github.com/McOmghall/midi-over-matrix - VR videoconferencing: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/matrix-vr-demo https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/matrix-vr-demo
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- MayeulC 6y ago
  Well, https://matrix.org https://matrix.org is a good place to start (but could use a face-lift for non-techies). There's a good list of clients, servers, SDKs, etc at https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now And of course, there is the Matrix spec itself, but I learned most of what I know idling in matrix channels (#matrix:matrix.org and #synapse:matrix.org) and hosting my own synapse instance.
remir 6y ago
Damn, this looks good! Thanks for the link!
- ryukafalz 6y ago
  Fair warning, that one’s fairly early in development. What is implemented works well, but I wouldn’t say it’s a Riot replacement quite yet. FluffyChat is similar, and seems to be a bit further along (it has basic e2e crypto support for example) -https://christianpauly.gitlab.io/fluffychat-website/en/ https://christianpauly.gitlab.io/fluffychat-website/en/
  - remir 6y ago
    Thanks for the suggestion. It looks awesome!
goatsi 6y ago
That's a really great example for showing the difference between federated protocols and what Signal is doing, since according to their roadmap support for end-to-end encryption is still in the planning stages: https://ditto.upvoty.com/b/feature-requests/end-to-end-encryption/ https://ditto.upvoty.com/b/feature-requests/end-to-end-encry...

godelski 6y ago

THANKS! This actually clears things up better than the other comments. Is there a list of these things somewhere so I can learn more?

ryukafalz 6y ago
This is probably the best place to start: https://matrix.org/clients https://matrix.org/clients And of course more broadly, Matrix as a whole isn't even limited to only messaging apps, although that's where most of the focus has been thus far. There have been some fun demos/projects in the past though: - Synchronized presentation slides: https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-presents https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-presents - MIDI over Matrix: https://github.com/McOmghall/midi-over-matrix https://github.com/McOmghall/midi-over-matrix - VR videoconferencing: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/matrix-vr-demo https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/matrix-vr-demo
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MayeulC 6y ago
Well, https://matrix.org https://matrix.org is a good place to start (but could use a face-lift for non-techies). There's a good list of clients, servers, SDKs, etc at https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now And of course, there is the Matrix spec itself, but I learned most of what I know idling in matrix channels (#matrix:matrix.org and #synapse:matrix.org) and hosting my own synapse instance.

remir 6y ago

Damn, this looks good! Thanks for the link!

ryukafalz 6y ago
Fair warning, that one’s fairly early in development. What is implemented works well, but I wouldn’t say it’s a Riot replacement quite yet. FluffyChat is similar, and seems to be a bit further along (it has basic e2e crypto support for example) -https://christianpauly.gitlab.io/fluffychat-website/en/ https://christianpauly.gitlab.io/fluffychat-website/en/
- remir 6y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. It looks awesome!

goatsi 6y ago

That's a really great example for showing the difference between federated protocols and what Signal is doing, since according to their roadmap support for end-to-end encryption is still in the planning stages: https://ditto.upvoty.com/b/feature-requests/end-to-end-encryption/ https://ditto.upvoty.com/b/feature-requests/end-to-end-encry...