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Never heard of Matrix before (as a protocol) what's it's advantage over XMPP?
by ticulatedspline 8mo ago
Never heard of Matrix before (as a protocol) what's it's advantage over XMPP?
- edhelas 8mo agohttps://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- fishgoesblub 8mo agoThe only one that sprouts to mind is it is currently more popular and has fancier mobile clients. Besides that, it's slower and more resource intensive.
- panick21_ 8mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040302 Lots of discussion here. The conceptual the prinicple difference is that XMPP originally is about sending messages while Matrix conceptually is about 'syncing state' (like a mini-graph database).
- goodpoint 8mo agoIt's heavier and leaks metadata.