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Due to the diverse range of communities I work with, I currently wrangle with up to 10 group chat systems to communicate with various individuals across the country and the world. Each of these (from Skype, LINE, Discord, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Hangouts) are fully proprietary and have no provision for intercommunication. | Due to the diverse range of communities I work with, I currently wrangle with up to 10 group chat systems to communicate with various individuals across the country and the world. Each of these (from Skype, LINE, Discord, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Hangouts) are fully proprietary and have no provision for intercommunication. | ||
Now how about a modern, open source group chat (akin to Slack) that would stand on its own, allow self hosted servers, yet provide full | Now how about a modern, open source group chat (akin to Slack) that would stand on its own, allow self hosted servers, yet provide full integration and bridging to IRC and other group chat systems? That's what Matrix, and it's frontend Riot does. | ||
* [https://matrix.org/ Matrix] is an open protocol for modern group chat where you can use self hosted servers, and have them interact with each other: like XMPP or IRC, but modernized. | * [https://matrix.org/ Matrix] is an open protocol for modern group chat where you can use self hosted servers, and have them interact with each other: like XMPP or IRC, but modernized. |