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[$] The road to mainstream Matrix

Matrix provides an open network for secure, decentralized communication. It has enjoyed some success over the last few years as an IRC replacement and real-time chat for a number o [...]

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@LWN I like Matrix, but their implementation of encryption is *very* unreliable (as I'm currently in key storage syncing / session verification hell).