Interesting, I was not aware of the metadata issues with matrix. I hope that’s something they can solve soon.

I have to say I haven’t done much research into XMPP. I’ll probably dabble with XMPP at some point when I get the time. I’ve been waiting for both projects to mature more before diving in too deep.

I’m really interested in a real time communication technology that combines the decentralized peer-to-peer and privacy features of briar with the speed and polished UI of telegram.

I read at some point that the matrix developers want to develop the matrix protocol to work peer-to-peer without a central homeserver. If that is the case then matrix may be headed down that path.

I signed up with the main matrix.org server years ago to try it out. I like to play with the the various clients every couple months to see what new features have been implemented. The element developers just released element x which looks nice.

I’m a big fan of the matrix protocol so I have to ask, what made you choose XMPP over matrix?