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Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First I’m hearing about it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Yeah seems really weird that a service with 2/3rds or more of the users than Discord is completely unknown to me or any of my fellas on the group discord when I asked them.

Can't tell if I am falling out of touch, the service is aimed at a completely different demographic than me, or these numbers are bullshit.

[–] skulkingaround 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of IRC communities migrated, and it's pretty much the go to option now if you want live communications for your project or org, but don't want something proprietary. It's a pretty good replacement for Teams or Slack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Many communities went back to IRC, though, because Matrix still is a hot mess, and the most visible ones which didn't (Mozilla, KDE, ...) are not hosting their own Matrix instance but letting New Vector do that for them, which makes in practice a disproportionate amount of users and accounts be managed by a single organization. I do think it's better than discord, but barely so.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to assume the bridged users count as well, but a lot of it is going to be private organizations.

Element is used by entities where safety of communications is critical, like NATO, the United Nations, the US Department of Defense, the German Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defense, and the French Government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah that explains it, ty.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

It's used by a lot by organisations who want an alternative to Slack/Teams. Have a look at the client list for Element, arguably the biggest Matrix client/platform - https://element.io/

And as someone else mentioned there's also a huge influx of IRC folks especially in the last year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they're aimed at very different demographics. In my experience, Discord is full of people who call themselves server admins when they moderate a group while Matrix-admins is actually self-hosting their own servers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I have been running my own server for a few years now. I would describe it more as an alternative for What's App or Signal than an alternative to discord. I think it's more used in a professional/and or government setting for organisations who need to run their own services.

Also, Matrix is just the protocol behind it and there are quite a few different clients for it, the most popular one is element. Lemmy.world also has a link to their Matrix instance.