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Matrix, Riot, Element, Synapse, Vector... I don't know how it is called anymore

Hey that's first problem! nobody knows how to find your service!

Go to your search engine and look up the following:

"Matrix" "Element matrix" "Matrix vector element" "Element"

See? no related results of what we're talking about..

Servers uses HTTP for it

What the hell? Why do a completly separate server use HTTP?

I mean, XMPP uses HTTP only for file upload and that's it (Also, the HTTP upload file server is started by the XMPP server, not like matrix, which depends on, let's say, nginx)

Centralization

Yeah, Matrix is a decentralized protocol in theory, but in practice, this is different:

Everyone has their account in matrix.org
Everyone uses element as their client, because all the others suck

Client is written in Electron!

What else do I have to say?

Comparision to XMPP

Here's a literally stolen from 404.city table to compare XMPP to Matrix

blank	XMPP	Matrix
Open protocol?	Yes	No
Commercialn project?	No	New Vector develops Element
Government censorship?	OMEMO is banned in France	French government sponsors Matrix
Encryption	OMEMO, OTR, PGP	OLM
Monopoly Network?	Many servers and clients	Most users use Element+Matrix.org
Good sponsorship?	No	Yes

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