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I'm confused as to how it's similar to Tox. Matrix seems to be a server with an API that allows you to send and subscribe to messages. This would be useful for

by Arnor 12y ago

I'm confused as to how it's similar to Tox. Matrix seems to be a server with an API that allows you to send and subscribe to messages. This would be useful for a software engineer working with M2M communication. Unless I'm looking at the wrong `Tox`, it seems to be a P2P IM client. These seem like completely separate domains, right?

ara4n 12y ago
Matrix is basically an eventually consistent object database with open federation and pubsub. It's optimised for messaging at the moment - you can use it for group chat, or WebRTC signalling, or M2M/IOT stuff, or anywhere else you want to pubsub data and keep a history. The similarity with Tox is that Matrix can implement a chat system that looks like Tox. The architectures are completely different though: Tox is a big distributed hashtable smeared over lots of peers; Matrix is client/server with synchronisation between te servers. (disclaimer: Matrix is my fault)