Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.
Not sure why Signal gets all the attention when Matrix is much more successful at spreading open source messaging and is also decentralized.
That’s a much better response. 14 million sounds more realistic. Very strange that they count bridged users (30 million!) as matrix users though.
Indeed strange without quantifying that number in any way, but at least it still sort of tells that you can reach 60 milion people (or bots ;)) via Matrix, even if 30 million of them don’t use it.
The IRC bridge is AFAIK also recreating a lot of ghost users everytime it breaks, and that happens a lot 😅
It’s more like Matrix is using them
By that count we could also count every Matrix user as a Jabber user. And every SMS user!
Such easy round single numbers do well in advocacy of the technology. In the Netherlands the social network project PubHubs has just started (with some serious backers, like Dutch public broadcasters, 2 universities), and they’ll use the Matrix protocol. Though they will be cryptographically separated from the rest of the Matrix network. In their presentations couple of weeks ago they mentioned a Matrix user base of 30 something million, influencing their technology choice. And I was like “Huh? Wow. That’s a lot”.