Matthew Hodgson (technical co-founder) joined us to talk about Matrix - an open source project and open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. It’s open source, it’s decentralized, it’s end-to-end-encrypted, and it’s also self-sovereign. Matrix also provides a bridge feature to bridge existing platforms and communication silos into a global open matrix of communication. A recent big win for Matrix was Mozilla’s announcement of switching off its IRC network that it had been using for 22 years and now uses Matrix instead.

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Featuring:

• Matthew Hodgson – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Matrix.org
• Matrix spec
• Matrix on GitHub
• Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix!
• Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla (the decision post)
• Check out this link and discussion on HN about “candidates for Mozilla’s IRC successor”

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