> as long as Matrix is at the forefront of usable federated open secure extensible private messaging You say this as if the truth of this statement was obvious

> as long as Matrix is at the forefront of usable federated open secure extensible private messaging You say this as if the truth of this statement was obvious to everyone. > free software developer hours are precious and wasting them are two different implementations of the same thing (much like Tox vs Ring for secret messaging) wastes a ton of effort that could be better spent making one of the two excellent rather than having two working solutions nobody uses. That's precisely the reason I work on ejabberd/XMPP rather than just throwing everything away and starting from scratch.