I hate what's happening to Matrix. They're splitting the Matrix protocol in two (image attached), because of a new EU directive incentivizes centralized services who talk to each other more than truly decentralized federated networks.
Larger networks who wish to pretend they're totally not anti-competitive can't easily talk to federated networks, so Matrix are scrapping federation in servers with a new spec change to make it easier for them.
Oh sure, it's "optional", in the sense of the protocol is being EEE'd internally by itself.
First of all, this completely erases the advantage of federation for chat networks - scaling, as each server has to talk to every other server.
This also undermines the future of P2P matrix, because servers can't indirectly learn of events other servers posted in the same channel.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/travis/msc/linearized-matrix/proposals/3995-linearized-matrix.md
Larger networks who wish to pretend they're totally not anti-competitive can't easily talk to federated networks, so Matrix are scrapping federation in servers with a new spec change to make it easier for them.
Oh sure, it's "optional", in the sense of the protocol is being EEE'd internally by itself.
First of all, this completely erases the advantage of federation for chat networks - scaling, as each server has to talk to every other server.
This also undermines the future of P2P matrix, because servers can't indirectly learn of events other servers posted in the same channel.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/travis/msc/linearized-matrix/proposals/3995-linearized-matrix.md
thankful that I never was interested in the matrix bandwagon
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