Matrix is way more expensdve to run by its protocol design

> Looks like matrix is in this niche now.

Matrix is almost as old now as XMPP was when Matrix first came out, and yet, after all those years and grandiose promises, and loads of venture capital, it doesn't strike me as approaching the problem in a better/sounder manner than the protocol it was set to replace (quite the opposite, actually, Matrix, the protocol and its implementations are worse on almost every metric).

Eh, I've used both a lot and matrix is kinda flailing from my perspective. At least for casual use. If you are a client of Element maybe the experience is better, but with their "next-gen" battery friendly client they've been working on for years, I can't even get notifications working through public unified push servers when using matrix.org. Meaning that just to get started using it I have to run my own matrix or up server.

i remember that too. XMPP is still alive and kicking, just a lot quieter these days. :)