alt Hacker NewsNever heard of Matrix before (as a protocol) what's it's advantage over XMPP?
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goodpoint • today at 4:06 PM
It's heavier and leaks metadata.
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).
edhelas • today at 2:12 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.