Matrix: Let a Thousand Chat Clients Bloom (with Eric Migicovsky) S03 E01

The Technium

Matrix is a decentralized chat protocol that is end-to-end encrypted. It lets users communicate with each other using different clients and even
run their own independent chat servers.

Links/Resources:
- https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction
- https://salibra.com/p/the-death-of-jabber-8ea395e82f5b- http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-google-pulled-plug-on-public-jabber.html- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850832- https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp

- Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/
- Moxie's post on decentralization: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Chapters:
0:00 Intros
2:23 What is Matrix?
3:58 A Brief History of Chat
11:51 Origins of Matrix
15:14 What attracted people to Matrix?
22:35 Motivation for Beeper
25:14 Bridges to other networks32:09 Separation between protocol and client38:42 Chat overload
43:19 Network Fragmentation
47:48 The Chat Future to Look Forward To
52:14 A Future of Specialized Clients
58:01 Chat bots and Chat tools
1:02:57 How do we get this future?

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