Re:Element raises $30M to boost Matrix
by samatman on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @12:19PM
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As a practical matter, I'm not concerned about this. The French government pays for support on a large Matrix deployment, a couple German states and the Bundeswehr do as well.
Those kinds of anchor clients leave me sanguine about the prospects of Matrix and Element.
As for decentralization, what the ~80% do is totally irrelevant to the other 20% of us. My company finally got off Slack (where 100% of users are trapped in a ransomware monolith) and we couldn't be happier. I federate with a couple other servers and it all Just Works.
Matrix is federated, and the way federated decentralization tends to play out involves a few big 'continents' and a vast archipelago of small instances. If you want true decentralization you have to force it with a peer-to-peer architecture, like Urbit or Secure Scuttlebutt.
Those kinds of anchor clients leave me sanguine about the prospects of Matrix and Element.
As for decentralization, what the ~80% do is totally irrelevant to the other 20% of us. My company finally got off Slack (where 100% of users are trapped in a ransomware monolith) and we couldn't be happier. I federate with a couple other servers and it all Just Works.
Matrix is federated, and the way federated decentralization tends to play out involves a few big 'continents' and a vast archipelago of small instances. If you want true decentralization you have to force it with a peer-to-peer architecture, like Urbit or Secure Scuttlebutt.
Those have their place, but so does Matrix.