Re:Riot is now Element
by neiljohnson on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:21AM
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Worth pointing out that some of the largest proponents of Matrix today are governments and civic institutions. The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them.
The French government's installation has been in the public domain for sometime (https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...)
More recently the German Education authority has announced that it will roll out a 500K user installation - this is the world’s largest-ever single contract for a collaborative software service (https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/)
>The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them.
It's important to everyone, whether they realize it or not.
Re:Riot is now Element
by dividedbyzero on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:39AM
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And if not already, then it is definitely becoming so.
True. An important first step. Glad to see that there is a conscious effort now. Hope Matrix succeds and sees widespread applications.
Although I don't see widespread adoption yet if Matrix bridges aren't implemented by the common household names. Conservative organisations use solutions from Apple or Microsoft. There is no deeper thought behind it.
That said, I think they just did it because of trademark issues. Private users are probably converted by their environment and probably don't think too much about the name.