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ticulatedsplinetoday at 1:44 PM4 repliesview on HN

Never heard of Matrix before (as a protocol) what's it's advantage over XMPP?


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fishgoesblubtoday at 3:25 PM

The only one that sprouts to mind is it is currently more popular and has fancier mobile clients. Besides that, it's slower and more resource intensive.

panick21_today at 3:42 PM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040302

Lots of discussion here.

The conceptual the prinicple difference is that XMPP originally is about sending messages while Matrix conceptually is about 'syncing state' (like a mini-graph database).

goodpointtoday at 4:06 PM

It's heavier and leaks metadata.