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Re:Riot is now Element by neiljohnson on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:21AM (#23842586)
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/)

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Re:Riot is now Element by jojobas on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:01AM (#23843556)
>The federated nature and ability to self host are really important to them.

It's important to everyone, whether they realize it or not.

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Re:Riot is now Element by dividedbyzero on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:39AM (#23846790)
And if not already, then it is definitely becoming so.
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Re:Riot is now Element by raxxorrax on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:42AM (#23842708)
True. An important first step. Glad to see that there is a conscious effort now. Hope Matrix succeds and sees widespread applications.
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Re:Riot is now Element by ATsch on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:05AM (#23846206)
To my knowledge these governments have so far all deployed their own forks with their own branding and features.
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