The team behind the Matrix open standard and real-time communication protocol has announced the release of its second major version, bringing end-to-end encryption to group VoIP, faster loading times, and more.
  • BEEKAYRANDEE@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    Genuine question: If the network is decentralized, how are they able to determine the amount of users on the system?

    The article mentions opt-in usage reporting, but that would only indicate there’s around 115 million users actively reporting that they’re using it, right?

    • Untold1707@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Correct. Home server operators need to opt-in to reporting (it’s off by default). On top of that, users on home servers who have opted in to reporting also need to opt in to analytics. So there are potentially many more users than are being reported to the matrix org.

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not the users reporting it, but the different homeservers, I think, and if memory serves it is connected to some other relevant feature that operators enable

  • OnU@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been enjoying matrix so much over the last couple of years. Its so nice having all the choices of clients and for me the best part, all those bridges. Everybody I have a conversation with, over the fact that i dont care where they contact me because I will just get it on the same client anyway, are always envious. (It’s the subtle of flexes :D) I hope we will get client side bridging one day. Ahh and of course p2p matrix. There are just so many awesome ideas and prototypes flying around matrix :)

  • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
    74·
    1 year ago

    Matrix has always been unusably laggy for me. Like, it takes longer to send a message over Matrix than over Lemmy. That’s the biggest barrier to entry.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    There is no way that is true. For context that would be 3 times the population of California