I think @rakoo has a great description (below) about matrix being so much more than a mere chat system. As far as where to learn more, maybe try visiting: http

I think @rakoo has a great description (below) about matrix being so much more than a mere chat system. As far as where to learn more, maybe try visiting: https://matrix.org/discover https://matrix.org/discover Also, i think i learned the most by reading the client-server api spec, and figuring out how to leverage the api to send messages into a room (from a little throw-away command line app i built)...but then, i dissolved my thinking that my little playing arouind had to be a "chat message" that gets sent into a roomn, and pretended the rooms and messages were for other contexts...and that is when my brain blew up, and that matrix is much more beyond just a chat messaging protocol. From my little playing around i grew to understand use cases like event synching between, say, IoT devices, and on and on... Admittedly, the chat use case is pretty easy to get acquanted with matrix. But i feell that there is so much more in store for the future of matrix. There are lots of clever people out there; i can't wait to see what else they build with matrix! EDIT: UPDATE...My apologies, i should not have assumed you were a dev/techie and would be willing or had the availabnility to "just build an app" in order to learn about a thing; sorry! My note about visiting the /discover page still would help in any case. :-)