Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Highlights include Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC (industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins (lazy-loading room state when your server joins a room).

  • Jeena
    56•1 year ago

    I have to say “Element X” is a very unfortunate name choice …

    • Chloyster [she/her]
      30•1 year ago

      I think it’s supposed to become just normal element when it gets feature parity with current element

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
        15•1 year ago

        Matrix has had a bit of trouble penetrating the enterprise market, which is where the real money is. Hence the corporate-speak rename.

        • Hot SaucermanEnglish
          8•1 year ago

          I mean, they haven’t had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)

          • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
            11•1 year ago

            Their main competitor in the open-source, self-hosted space is Mattermost, which has a much more business-oriented solution, so there’s that as well.

            • @Gamey@feddit.de
              3•1 year ago

              That seems more like a direct competitor to Slack and MS Team to me rather than general communication. Matrix is a facinating protocol that keeps pushing the limits of federated communication but it always sucked as replacment for those and unless someone invests huge amounts of money in a completely new client I don’t see taht changing any time soon tbh.

      • ptman
        4•1 year ago

        Riot games forced them to change the name.

    • Jeena
      5•1 year ago

      I wanted to try Element X but apparently my self hosted server is not compatible.

        • troed
          7•1 year ago

          Yeah I was able to install sliding-sync on Dendrite without issues. A bit surprising that I didn’t see any guides made for it yet.

          • Tracteur BlindéEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Did you find docs? I did a cursory glance around late last week and ended up just shrugging assuming that’s what I got for using Dendrite (positive)

            Edit: Turns out, when running sliding-sync you really only need to patch the .well-known/matrix/client configuration

          • Jeena
            1•1 year ago

            There was a how-to video linked in one of the articles.