I agree. It's not easy for the average user to setup a Matrix server, yet. With Conduit's light footprint soon we may be able to setup a server by simply downlo

I agree. It's not easy for the average user to setup a Matrix server, yet. With Conduit's light footprint soon we may be able to setup a server by simply downloading it from Google Play or the App Store. If the rest of the setup could be done through an easy to understand visual tool (including bridging between different messaging services) I expect Matrix to achieve a lot of traction. I'm worried though that the technology will be made illegal. The seven -- US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Japan, for example, said, "We urge industry to address our serious concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content .... We challenge the assertion that public safety cannot be protected without compromising privacy or cybersecurity." Bills in the US such as EARN IT (could eliminate P2P E2E messaging. The UK's GCHQ has come up with an idea called 'ghost protocol', which would add the government as a secret eavesdropper into every call. I understand and struggle with the good reasons why governments feel the need to do this. For example, as technology becomes more powerful it's not unrealistic to imagine a scenario that someday all it would take would be one crazy person to release a futuristic bio or nuclear weapon that would kill everyone in the world. I hope Matrix isn't hindered too much by the law. I guess there are backdoors built into the hardware and operating systems Matrix runs on, so the government can listen anyway. With E2E encryption at least Mark Zuckerburg won't be able to, though.